Cytherea aureus Fabricius, 1794

Arabyat, Sahar, Katbeh-Bader, Ahmad & Greathead, David, 2004, The bee flies (Diptera: Bombyliidae) of Jordan, Zootaxa 654, pp. 1-48 : 24

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.158701
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6272274
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scientific name	Cytherea aureus Fabricius, 1794
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Material: Three specimens: Dayr Alla 8.IV.1974 (1ɗ, 1Ψ); Al Mujib 13.III.2002 (1ɗ). Distribution: Palaearctic: Algeria, Egypt, Italy, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Tunisia.

It is readily recognizable owing to its unusual brownish yellow tawny color; and the black hairs are confined to ocellar tubercle ( Austen 1937). Evenhuis and Greathead (1999) cited this species as recorded from Jordan.