Bombomyia discoidea (Fabricius, 1794)

Arabyat, Sahar, Katbeh-Bader, Ahmad & Greathead, David, 2004, The bee flies (Diptera: Bombyliidae) of Jordan, Zootaxa 654, pp. 1-48 : 14

Bombomyia discoidea (Fabricius, 1794)

Material: Two specimens: Ghawr As Safi 3.XI.1981 (1Ψ); Tabaqt Fahl 10.X.1999 (1ɗ).

Distribution: Afrotropical: Botswana, Burundi, Chad, Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nambia, Niger , Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe. Palaearctic: Algeria, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, China, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Gruzia, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Lebanon, Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Russia, Spain, Syria, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan.

Austen (1937) mentioned that this species was seen feeding on or poising above white flowers of Heliotropium villosum Willa (Boraginaceae) . Our female specimens have grey pubescence on the head and thorax, while in the specimens from Oman, the grey color is completely replaced by orange brown pubescence ( Greathead, 1980a).

Bombomyia stictica (Fabricius, 1794)

Material: Four specimens: As Salt 21.IV.1974 (1Ψ); Dayr Alla 6.V.1974 (1Ψ); Kafr Asad 9.IV.2001 (1ɗ); Wadi Shu’ayb 24. IV.1997 (1ɗ).

Distribution: Palaearctic: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Gruzia, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyz Republic, Lebanon, Libya, Moldova, Morocco, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Syria, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates.