Atherigona (Atherigona) conigera van Emden, 1940

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 : 22-23

Atherigona (Atherigona) conigera van Emden, 1940 ( Fig. 28 )

Atherigona (Atherigona) conigera van Emden, 1940: 118 .

Specimens examined. 2m, Asir, Al-Souda, Bani Mazen , 19.vi.–9.vii.2013, Malaise trap, H . A . Dawah ( CERS) ; 2m, Asir, Abha, Hay Al-Nusub , 6–27.vii.2013, Malaise trap, H . A . Dawah ( CERS) ; 1m, Asir, Abha, Hay Al-Menhel , 1–19.ii.2014, Malaise trap, H . A . Dawah ( NMWC; CERS) ; 3m, 2f, Asir, Abha, Madenate Al-Ameer Sultan, Hay Al-Sad , 25.ii.–25.v.2002, Malaise trap, H . A . Dawah ( NMWC) .

Distribution. This species was previously recorded from Saudi Arabia by Dawah & Abdullah (2009); El-Hawagry et al. (2017). It was described from Kenya, Uganda and Yemen. No other material is known from the Arabian Peninsula ( Pont 1991).

Biological remarks. Reared from Cynodon nlemfuensis Vanderyst in Kenya and Pennisetum purpureum Schumach in Ethiopia.

Figures

FIGURE. 28–31. Muscidae species habitus: 28) Atherigona (Atherigona) conigera Emden, 1940, Male; 29) Atherigona (Atherigona) gilvifolia Emden, 1940, Male; 30) Atherigona (Atherigona) humeralis (Wiedemann, 1830), Male; 31) Atherigona (Atherigona) hyalinipennis Emden, 1959, Male.