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Atissa pygmaea

Description

Atissa pygmaea (Haliday, 1833)

Ephydra pygmaea Haliday, 1833: 174. One Syntype, sex?. Northern Ireland (Down: Holywood) (NMID).

Distribution: AF: Kenya, Senegal, Sierra Leone, United Arab Emirates. NE: USA (Alaska). PA: Algeria, Austria, Azores, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canary Is., Croatia, Egypt, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan (Honshu), Morocco, Netherlands, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Syria, Tunisia, Ukraine.

Egyptian localities: Coastal Strip: Alexandria. Eastern Desert: Port Said, Suez. Fayoum:?. Lower Nile Valley & Delta: Cairo (Cresson, 1929: 176-177), Damietta, Mansouriya. Sinai: Wadi Gedeirat. Upper Nile Valley: Luxor, Qena.

Dates of collection: February to November.

Notes

Published as part of El-Hawagry, Magdi S., Zatwarnicki, Tadeusz & Ebrahim, Ayman M., 2018, Catalogue of the Egyptian Ephydroidea (Diptera: Schizophora: Acalyptratae), pp. 201-246 in Zootaxa 4444 (3) on page 214, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4444.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1309626

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Ephydridae
Genus
Atissa
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Diptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Haliday
Species
pygmaea
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Atissa pygmaea (Haliday, 1833) sec. El-Hawagry, Zatwarnicki & Ebrahim, 2018

References

  • Haliday, A. H. (1833) Catalogue of Diptera Occurring about Holywood in Downshire. Entomological Magazine, 1, 147 - 180.
  • Cresson, E. T., Jr. (1929) Studies in the dipterous family Ephydridae. Paper II. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 55, 165 - 195.