Bombomyia discoidea (Fabricius, 1794)

El-Hawagry, Magdi S. & Dhafer, Hathal M. Al, 2015, Five new records of bee flies (Bombyliidae, Diptera) from Saudi Arabia with zoogeographical remarks, ZooKeys 489, pp. 125-133 : 128

Taxon classification Animalia Diptera Bombyliidae

Bombomyia discoidea (Fabricius, 1794) Figures 2-6

Remarks.

This is a robust species over 10 mm in length; with body, legs, and all spines and spicules black; with uniformly long hair on abdomen black at base, white at apex; thorax of female with gray to orange-brown hairs.

Distribution.

Afrotropical: Botswana, Burundi, Chad, Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Saudi Arabia (South-western part), Senegal, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe. Palaearctic: Algeria, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, China, France, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Israel, Italy, Mongolia, Russia, Spain, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan.

Material examined.

1 female, Al-Baha Province, Ghabet Shahba [20.02.723N,41.28.565E, 2324m], 20.V.2013, (El-Hawagry); 1 female, same data, 2.VI.2013; 1 female, Asir Province, Garf Raydah Protected Area [18°11.884'N, 42°24.435'E, 2387 m], 6.VI.2014, (El-Hawagry). All deposited in EFC.