Amictus validus Loew 1869
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Amictus validus Loew 1869
Material: 29 specimens: Al Azraq Natural Reserve 17.V.2002 (1Ψ); Ar Ramtha 29.VII.2002 (3ɗ, 2Ψ); Ash Shajarh 22.VII.2002 (6Ψ, 8ɗ); Western Bayudah 26.VIII.2002 (6Ψ); West Irbid 17.IV.2002 (1Ψ); Zahar 17.VII.2002 (2Ψ).
Distribution: Palaearctic: Afghanistan, Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, Gruzia, Iran, Italy, Lebanon, Libya, Macedonia, Moldova, Morocco, Palestine, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Yugoslavia.
This species is a common species in the northern mountains of Jordan. It was collected from Carthamus persicus Willd (Compositae). Males have a remarkably long bristle on the underside of the fore tarsus just in front of the tip, while in the females there is a pair of longer bristles. Males have dense black hairs surrounding the genitalia which can be easily seen without dissection.
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- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.158701 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFBEFFC5EF5EFFFDFFF1FFC1042B0F19 (URL)
- Is source of
- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/038787BDEF4BFFEBFEF9F967060A0D57 (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/119606766 (URL)
- https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/41610/taxon/038787BDEF4BFFEBFEF9F967060A0D57.taxon (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Loew
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Diptera
- Family
- Bombyliidae
- Genus
- Amictus
- Species
- validus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Amictus validus Loew, 1869 sec. Arabyat, Katbeh-Bader & Greathead, 2004