Ceylalictus variegatus (OLIVIER, 1789)

Ceylalictus variegatus (OLIVIER, 1789): PESENKO & PAULY 2005: 144 (key), 159 (figs 13a-n), 160

(tax., descr. ♂ ♀, figs 14a-e, biol.,? Tadjoura). * Allodape syrphoides n.sp.: WALKER 1871a: 50 (descr. ♀, Tadjoura). Allodape syrphoides WALKER, 1871: DE DALLA TORRE 1896: 202 (world cat. (Djibouti, not

Egypt)). Allodape syrphoides WALKER, 1871: INNES BEY 1911: 106 (without locality, cat. Lord Collection). Nomioides syrphoides (WALKER, 1781): MICHENER 1975: 235 (tax.). Allodape syrphoides WALKER, 1871: PESENKO & PAULY 2005: 166 (? syn.).

D i s t r i b u t i o n: Tadjoura.

Ceylalictus variegatus is known from the Afrotropical (Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Chad, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Gambia, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Somalia) and Palaearctic (e.g. Saudi Arabia, Yemen) regions.