Eumerus amoenus Loew, 1848

Dawah, Hassan A., Abdullah, Mohammed A., Ahmad, Syed Kamran, Al-Dhafer, Hathal & Turner, James, 2020, An overview of the Syrphidae (Diptera) of Saudi Arabia, Zootaxa 4855 (1), pp. 1-69 : 24

Eumerus amoenus Loew, 1848

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Eumerus amoenus Loew, 1848: 125

Examined specimens. 1♀, 1♂, Asir, Abha, Hay Al-Nusub , 15–30.v.2014, Malaise trap, H.A. Dawah ( CERS) ; 1♀, same locality but 3–24.vii.2013 ( CERS) .

Distribution. This species was recently recorded from Saudi Arabia by El-Hawagry et al. (2017). It was described from Island of Rhodes in the Mediterranean and the species ranges from central France south to Portugal and Spain and around the Mediterranean (including Cyprus, Rhodes and Crete) to Greece and on to Algeria, Morocco, Egypt, Canary lslands, Azores, southern Germany and Switzerland in central Europe; The Caucasus; Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Tadjikistan, Turkestan, and Yemen ( Dirickx 1994; Smit et al. 2017; Haffaressas et al. 2017; Speight 2020).

Remarks. E. amoenus is the most common species in the Mediterranean subregion ( Dirickx 1998). This species has been reared from Allium L., potato tubers, water melon, grapes, rotten paw-paw and damaged rhizomes of Iris germanica L. ( Iridaceae ) ( Ricarte et al. 2017; Haffaressas et al. 2017). E. amoenus could be associated with Allium cepa or Solanum tuberosum L. ( Table 2) which are the main crops cultivated at Hay Al-Nusub in Abha but this requires confirmation.

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FIGURE 22. Habitus of Eumerus amoenus Loew, 1848. Male, lateral view.