Usia bicolor Macquart, 1855

Arabyat, Sahar, Katbeh-Bader, Ahmad & Greathead, David, 2004, The bee flies (Diptera: Bombyliidae) of Jordan, Zootaxa 654, pp. 1-48 : 10-11

Usia bicolor Macquart, 1855

Material: 64 specimens: Ira 21.III.1994 (1Ψ); Al Jubayhah 25. IV.1996 (1Ψ); Al Mukhybah Al Fawqa 9.III.2002 (2Ψ, 3ɗ); Al Mukhybah At Tahta 11.III.2002 (1ɗ, 1Ψ); Ayn Aqraba 25.III.2002 (2Ψ, 2ɗ); Ar Rumman 6.V.2002 (1ɗ); As Salt 13.IV.2002 (30Ψ, 14ɗ); 16.IV.2002 (3Ψ, 2ɗ); Zai 1.V.1993 (1ɗ).

Distribution: Palaearctic: Bosnia­Hercegovina, Croatia, Egypt, Greece, Italy, Kyrgyz Republic, Lebanon, Palestine, Slovenia, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Yugoslavia.

It is a common species in the highland and Jordan Valley. Many specimens were picked by hand from the flowers of Pink Flax, Linum pubescens Banks & Sol. at sunset in As Salt and from Blue flax Linum peyronii Post.