Aspidacantha atra Kertsz, 1916

El-Hawagry, Magdi, Al Dhafer, Hathal Mohammed, Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud & Hauser, Martin, 2021, The family Stratiomyidae in Egypt and Saudi Arabia (Diptera: Stratiomyoidea), Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 64212-64212 : 64212

Aspidacantha atra Kertsz, 1916

Aspidacantha atra Kertész, 1916: 155. Type locality: Eritrea (Assab) [Assab belongs now to Eritrea not to Ethiopia as written in world catalogues].

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: H. Pohl; sex: 1 female; lifeStage: Adult ; Taxon : taxonID: https://www.gbif.org/species/1578171; scientificName: Aspidacantha atra; Location: country: Egypt; locality: Hurghada ; decimalLatitude: 27.23370; decimalLongitude: 33.8256; Identification: identifiedBy: M. El-Hawagry & M. Hauser; dateIdentified: 2020-2021; Event: samplingProtocol: Light trap; eventDate: 9/11-22/1994; Record Level: institutionCode: CSCA Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: Aldhafer H.M. et al.; lifeStage: Adult ; Taxon : taxonID: https://www.gbif.org/species/1578171; scientificName: Aspidacantha atra; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; locality: Raydah ; decimalLatitude: 18.20525; decimalLongitude: 42.4101; Identification: identifiedBy: M. El-Hawagry & M. Hauser; dateIdentified: 2020-2021; Event: samplingProtocol: Sweeping; eventDate: 06-07-2014; Record Level: institutionCode: KSMA Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: Aldhafer H.M. et al.; lifeStage: Adult ; Taxon : taxonID: https://www.gbif.org/species/1578171; scientificName: Aspidacantha atra; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; locality: Raydah ; decimalLatitude: 18.201583; decimalLongitude: 42.4089; Identification: identifiedBy: M. El-Hawagry & M. Hauser; dateIdentified: 2020-2021; Event: samplingProtocol: Light trap; eventDate: 02-21-2014; Record Level: institutionCode: KSMA Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: Aldhafer H.M. et al.; lifeStage: Adult ; Taxon : taxonID: https://www.gbif.org/species/1578171; scientificName: Aspidacantha atra; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; locality: Raydah ; decimalLatitude: 18.201583; decimalLongitude: 42.4089; Identification: identifiedBy: M. El-Hawagry & M. Hauser; dateIdentified: 2020-2021; Event: samplingProtocol: Light trap; eventDate: 07-31-2015; Record Level: institutionCode: KSMA Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: Aldhafer H.M. et al.; lifeStage: Adult ; Taxon : taxonID: https://www.gbif.org/species/1578171; scientificName: Aspidacantha atra; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; locality: Raydah ; decimalLatitude: 18.20525; decimalLongitude: 42.4102; Identification: identifiedBy: M. El-Hawagry & M. Hauser; dateIdentified: 2020-2021; Event: samplingProtocol: Sweeping; eventDate: 09-05-2015; Record Level: institutionCode: KSMA Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: Aldhafer H.M. et al.; lifeStage: Adult ; Taxon : taxonID: https://www.gbif.org/species/1578171; scientificName: Aspidacantha atra; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; locality: Raydah ; decimalLatitude: 18.201583; decimalLongitude: 42.4089; Identification: identifiedBy: M. El-Hawagry & M. Hauser; dateIdentified: 2020-2021; Event: samplingProtocol: Light trap; eventDate: 09-05-2015; Record Level: institutionCode: KSMA Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: Aldhafer H.M. et al.; lifeStage: Adult ; Taxon : taxonID: https://www.gbif.org/species/1578171; scientificName: Aspidacantha atra; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; locality: Raydah ; decimalLatitude: 18.201583; decimalLongitude: 42.4089; Identification: identifiedBy: M. El-Hawagry & M. Hauser; dateIdentified: 2020-2021; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 09-05-2015; Record Level: institutionCode: KSMA Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: Aldhafer H.M. et al.; lifeStage: Adult ; Taxon : taxonID: https://www.gbif.org/species/1578171; scientificName: Aspidacantha atra; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; locality: Raydah ; decimalLatitude: 18.204417; decimalLongitude: 42.4124; Identification: identifiedBy: M. El-Hawagry & M. Hauser; dateIdentified: 2020-2021; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 02-20-2014; Record Level: institutionCode: KSMA Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: Aldhafer H.M. et al.; lifeStage: Adult ; Taxon : taxonID: https://www.gbif.org/species/1578171; scientificName: Aspidacantha atra; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; locality: Raydah ; decimalLatitude: 18.20525; decimalLongitude: 42.4101; Identification: identifiedBy: M. El-Hawagry & M. Hauser; dateIdentified: 2020-2021; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 06-07-2014; Record Level: institutionCode: KSMA

Distribution

AF: Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia [as "south western part"], Tanzania, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Zimbabwe. PA: Egypt, Israel, Russia, Turkmenistan. [Sources: Lindner (1936), Woodley (2001), Hauser (2008) and El-Hawagry et al. (2017)]

Local distribution and dates of collection (Fig. 2 ): EGYPT: Eastern Desert: Hurghada (September). Western Desert: Siwa Oasis (August). [Sources: Lindner (1930) and museum material]. SAUDI ARABIA: Asir: Raydah Nature Reserve (February to December). [Sources: El-Hawagry et al. (2017) and collected material]

Figures

Figure 2. Distribution map of Aspidacantha atra Kertesz and Sternobrithes sp.