Conops (Asiconops) nubeculipennis Bezzi, 1901

El-Hawagry, Magdi, Soliman, Ahmed Mostafa & Al Dhafer, Hathal Mohammed, 2021, The family Conopidae (Diptera) in Egypt and Saudi Arabia, Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 60287-60287 : 60287

Conops (Asiconops) nubeculipennis Bezzi, 1901

Conops nubeculipennis Bezzi, 1901: 21. Type locality: Eritrea.

Conops atrogonius Séguy 1930: 134. Type locality: Morocco.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Aldhafer H.M. et al.; sex: 1 male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: https://www.gbif.org/species/5076815; scientificName: Conops nubeculipennis; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Conopidae; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; stateProvince: Al-Qassim; locality: Unayzah ; decimalLatitude: 26.085478; decimalLongitude: 43.9768123; Identification: identifiedBy: M. El-Hawagry; dateIdentified: May 2020; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 05-01-2018; Record Level: institutionCode: KSMA Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Aldhafer H.M. et al.; sex: 1 female; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: https://www.gbif.org/species/5076815; scientificName: Conops nubeculipennis; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Conopidae; Location: country: Saudi Arabia; stateProvince: Asir; locality: Garf Raydah Nature Reserve ; decimalLatitude: 18.194917; decimalLongitude: 42.396967; Identification: identifiedBy: M. El-Hawagry; dateIdentified: May 2020; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 05-08-2015; Record Level: institutionCode: KSMA

Distribution

AF: Cameroon, Ethiopia, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia [as "South-western part"] ( El-Hawagry et al. 2017), Yemen, Zambia. PA: Egypt, Israel, Morocco.

Local distribution and dates of collection (Fig. 2 ): EGYPT: Upper Nile Valley: South Aswan (as “Nubien”) [Source: Kröber (1915b)]. SAUDI ARABIA: Al-Qassim: Unayzah (May); Asir: Raydah Nature Reserve (May and June); South-western part of Saudi Arabia including Jazan and Najran (September and October) [Sources: Walker and Pittaway (1987), El-Hawagry et al. (2017)) and collected material].

Notes

This species was listed by Kröber (1915b), Steyskal and El-Bialy (1967), Azmy (2016), Stuke (2017) as recorded from Egypt, but no specimens have been collected or preserved in Egyptian museums.

Figures

Figure 2. Local distribution map of Conops (Asiconops) elegans Meigen and Conops (Asiconops) nubeculipennis Bezzi in Egypt and Saudi Arabia.