Musca (Byomya) biseta Hough, 1898
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4869.1.1 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4442710 |
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Musca (Byomya) biseta Hough, 1898 |
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Musca (Byomya) biseta Hough, 1898 ( Fig. 3 View FIGURE )
Musca biseta Hough, 1898: 173 .
Specimens examined. 1m, 1f, Jazan, Abu Aresh, Al-Mahdag Village , 25.i–16.ii.2014, Malaise trap, H.A. Dawah ( CERS) ; 2f, Asir, Abha, Madenate Al-Ameer Sultan , 25.ii.–25.v.2002, Malaise trap, H.A. Dawah ( NMWC; CERS) .
Distribution. Previously recorded from Saudi Arabia by Pont (1991); Dawah & Abdullah (2009); El-Hawagry et al. (2017; 2018). It was described from Somalia. In the Middle East it has been recorded from Iran, Iraq, Oman, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Yemen ( Pont 1991; Deeming 2008; Dawah & Abdullah 2009; Moradil et al. 2013).
Biological remarks. The biology of this species is very similar to that of M. sorbens . Vlassor & Stackelberg, quoted in Hennig (1964) recorded large numbers of larvae from a dead tortoise ( Testudo horsfieldi Gray ) ( Dawah & Abdullah 2009). It is a persistent sweat-fly and eye-fly ( Skidmore 1985).
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Musca (Byomya) biseta Hough, 1898
Dawah, Hassan A., Abdullah, Mohammed A. & Deeming, John C. 2020 |
Musca biseta
Hough, G. de 1898: 173 |