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Heterotropus Loew 1873

Description

Genus HETEROTROPUS Loew

Heterotropus Loew, 1873: 180, 182. Type species: Heterotropus albidipennis Loew, 1873, by monotypy.

Remarks: Heterotropus spp. known as predators (Yeates & Irwin 1992).

Heterotropus aegyptiacus Paramonov, 1929

Heterotropus aegyptiacus Paramonov, 1929: 131 (70). Type locality: Egypt.

Distribution: AF: Egypt [as ”Gebel Elba”], Saudi Arabia [as “South western part”], Sudan. PA: Egypt.

Saudi Arabian localities: Al-Baha: Ghabet Raghdan (Al-Baha Gov.). Makkah: Jabal Daka (Taief Gov.). Riyadh: Rawdhat Al-Sabalah (Al-Zulfi Province).

Dates of collection: March to August.

Notes

Published as part of El-Hawagry, Magdi S. & Al Dhafer, Hathal M., 2019, The family Bombyliidae in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (Diptera: Brachycera: Asiloidea), pp. 59-94 in Zootaxa 4590 (1) on page 64, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4590.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/2651542

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Loew
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Bombyliidae
Genus
Heterotropus
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Heterotropus Loew, 1873 sec. El-Hawagry & Dhafer, 2019

References

  • Loew, H. (1873) Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europaischen zweiflugeligen Insecten. Von Johann Wilhelm Meigen. Zehnter Theil oder vierter Supplementband. Beschreibungen europaischer Dipteren. Dritter Band. H. W. Schmidt, Halle, 320 pp.
  • Yeates, D. K. & Irwin, M. (1992) Three new species of Heterotropus Loew (Diptera: Bombyliidae) from South Africa with descriptions of the immature stages and a discussion of the phylogenetic placement of the genus. American Museum Novitates, 3036, 1 - 25.
  • Paramonov, S. J. (1929) Beitrage zur Monographie einiger Bombyliiden-Gattungen. (Diptera). Trudy Fizychno- Matematychnogo Viddil Ukrains'ka Akademiya Nauk, 11 (1), 65 - 225.