Musca (Byomya) biseta Hough, 1898

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 : 10

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4869.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4442710

persistent identifier

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scientific name

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).

NMWC

National Museum of Wales

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Anthomyiidae

Genus

Musca

Loc

Musca (Byomya) biseta Hough, 1898

Dawah, Hassan A., Abdullah, Mohammed A. & Deeming, John C. 2020
2020
Loc

Musca biseta

Hough, G. de 1898: 173
1898
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