Medetera grisescens De Meijere, 1916

Dawah, Hassan A., Ahmad, Syed Kamran, Abdullah, Mohammed A. & Grichanov, Igor Ya., 2020, The family Dolichopodidae (Diptera) of the Arabian Peninsula: identification key, an updated list of species and new records from Saudi Arabia, Journal of Natural History 54 (21 - 22), pp. 1425-1454 : 1444

Medetera grisescens De Meijere, 1916

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Specimens examined

1♂, Najran, Al-Shurfa , Saleh Maqbol Farm, 1–29 .iv .2013, Malaise trap, H.A. Dawah ( CERS; NMWC) .

Distribution

The genus Medetera is firstly recorded from Saudi Arabia. The material examined is the closest to Medetera grisescens , which is described from Indonesia: Java, Djakarta and Wonosobo. It is known from many countries of the Oriental ( Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, China (Taiwan), Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Indonesia, Japan (Ryukyu Is.), Malaysia, Singapore), Australasian ( Australia, American Samoa, Fiji, Hawaiian Is., Bonin Is., New Caledonia, Northern Mariana, Western Samoa) and Afrotropical ( Seychelles, Tanzania, Madagascar, Mauritius) regions ( Grichanov 2018).

Figures

Figure 5. Dolichopodid species habitus: a – Thinophilus indigenus Becker; b – Thinophilus ochripalpis Becker; c – Thinophilus promotus Becker; d – Thinophilus spinulosus Parent; e – Medetera grisescens De Meijere; f – Micromorphus aereus (Vaillant).