Myospila lenticeps ( Thomson, 1869 )

Dawah, Hassan A., Abdullah, Mohammed A. & Deeming, John C., 2020, The Muscidae (Diptera) of Saudi Arabia, descriptions of two new species, new records and updated list of species, Zootaxa 4869 (1), pp. 1-54 : 32

Myospila lenticeps ( Thomson, 1869) ( Fig. 49 )

Anthomyia lenticeps Thomson, 1869: 553

Specimens examined. 4m, Asir, Keratha, Al-Ethrebany Fruit Farm , 6–27.v.2014, Malaise trap, H.A. Dawah ( NMWC; CERS) ; 5m, 1f, same date but, 6–27.viii.2013 ( CERS; NMWC) ; 2m, 1f, Asir, Abha, Madenate Al-Ameer Sultan , 7–28.xi.2013, Malaise trap, H.A. Dawah ( CERS) .

Distributon. New to Saudi Arabia. It was described from China.

Taxonomic remarks. Often this species was included in literature under the name Helinella , either as a genus or subgenus of Helina . The synonym propinqua of authors not Stein listed in Catalogue of the Diptera of the Afrotropical Region ( Crosskey 1980: 747) applies to a different species occurring in Papua and eastwards.

Figures

FIGURE. 46–50. Muscidae species habitus: 46) Dimorphia cognata Robineau Desvoidy 1830, male; 47) Graphomya maculata (Scopoli, 1763), Male; 48) Graphomya maculata (Scopoli, 1763), ssp. leucomelas (Wiedemann, 1824), Male; 49) Myospila lenticeps (Thomson, 1869), Male; 50) Limnophora aculeipes aculeipes Stein, 1913, Male.