Orasiopa (Reymontopa) mera ( Cresson, 1939 )

Dawah, Hassan A., Ahmad, Syed K., Abdullah, Mohammed A. & Zatwarnicki, Tadeusz, 2019, An overview of the Ephydridae (Diptera) of Saudi Arabia, Zootaxa 4711 (3), pp. 401-445 : 421

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4711.3.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:EF990EE4-6D69-41DE-A7ED-6C3B5141B106
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5191373
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scientific name	Orasiopa (Reymontopa) mera ( Cresson, 1939 )
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Orasiopa (Reymontopa) mera ( Cresson, 1939) View in CoL

Discocerina mera Cresson, 1939: 6 View in CoL .

Orasiopa mera: Zatwarnicki & Mathis 2001: 40 View in CoL [generic combination]; Mathis et al. 2017: 696 [ United Arab Emirates].

Specimens examined. 1 ♂, Jazan, Farasan Island (Under the Al-Saged Bridge), 22. v. 2014, sweeping on seaweed, H.A. Dawah ( CERS) .

Distribution. This is the first record from Saudi Arabia. This species was described from Thailand and further recorded from the Afrotropical Region: Aldabra, Seychelles, United Arab Emirates; Australasian/Oceanian Region: Australia (New South Wales, Queensland), Caroline Islands, Eniwetok Atoll, Fiji, Gilbert Islands, Guam, Hawaiian Islands, Marianas Islands, Marshall Islands, Papua New Guinea ( Papua New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago), Solomon Islands, Society Islands, Tahiti; Nearctic Region: Antilles, Bermuda, United States (Florida); Neotropical Region: Belize, Brazil, Costa Rica, Trinidad and Tobago; Oriental Region: Malaya, Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam; Palaearctic Region: Japan.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Diptera
Family	Ephydridae
Genus	Orasiopa