Cytherea obscura Fabricius, 1794

Arabyat, Sahar, Katbeh-Bader, Ahmad & Greathead, David, 2004, The bee flies (Diptera: Bombyliidae) of Jordan, Zootaxa 654, pp. 1-48 : 25

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.158701
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6272284
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scientific name	Cytherea obscura Fabricius, 1794
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Cytherea obscura Fabricius, 1794 View in CoL

Material: Three specimens: Al Jubayhah 13.V.1974 (1ɗ); Ar Rumman 18.V.2001 (1ɗ); Nahlah 9.VII.1974 (1Ψ).

Distribution: Palaearctic: Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, BosniaHerzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Greece, Gruzia, Iran, Italy, Lebanon, Macedonia, Moldova, Morocco, Palestine, Portugal, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Yugoslavia.

This species exhibits unstable venation in some specimens, some have a supernumerary anterior transverse veins in each wing ( Austen, 1937). It is recorded as predator on the eggs of Calliptamus italicus (Linnaeus) and Dociostaurus maroccanus (Thunberg) (du Merle, 1975).