Eumerus efflatouni Curran, 1938

El-Hawagry, Magdi S. & Gilbert, Francis, 2019, Catalogue of the Syrphidae of Egypt (Diptera), Zootaxa 4577 (2), pp. 201-248 : 217

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4577.2.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5929814

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scientific name

Eumerus efflatouni Curran, 1938
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Eumerus efflatouni Curran, 1938 View in CoL

Citabaena efflatouni Curran, 1938: 12 View in CoL . Type locality: Egypt (Ezbet El-Nakhl).

Eumerus vestitus Bezzi, 1912: 442 View in CoL . Type locality: Guinea-Bissau. [of Egyptian authors].

Materal examined: 2 males, 2 females, Gebel Elba, I.1930, leg. H.C.E. & M.T [EFC as E. vestitus View in CoL ].

World distribution: PA: Egypt, Israel.

Egyptian localities: Coastal Strip: Dekheila, Ibrahemiya, Mariout, Moharam Bey, Ramleh. Eastern Desert: Wadi Hoff. Fayoum:?. Gebel Elba:?. Lower Nile Valley & Delta: Abu-Rawash, El-Gebel El-Asfar, El-Marg, Ezbet El-Nakhl, Giza, Kirdassa, Khosous, Kombera, Maadi, Quisna, Shubra. Sinai: Ein Moussa, Moweilleh. [Sources: Curran (1938); Efflatoun (1922) and Shaumar & Kamal (1978), as E. vestitus in all].

Activity period in Egypt: Throughout the year.

Remarks: The presence of this species in Egypt was confirmed by Dirickx (1994), who thought that the Afrotropical vestitus was clearly a different species. Curran described efflatouni from a single male caught near Cairo, and considered all of Efflatoun’s specimens of vestitus to be his new species. Efflatoun (1922) stated that this species (as E. vestitus ) is a very interesting fly owing to the fact that it closely mimics the flight of Hymenoptera . It was observed flying above Polygonum equisetiforme at El-Marg. He observed that the adult continuously moves and vibrates its wings, it rests on the flowers for a short time and suddenly darts away and sits on the sand and then back again on the flowers, repeating this performance over and over again. The larvae are bred consistently from onions ( Gendy, 1978).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Syrphidae

Genus

Eumerus

Loc

Eumerus efflatouni Curran, 1938

El-Hawagry, Magdi S. & Gilbert, Francis 2019
2019
Loc

Citabaena efflatouni

Curran, C. H. 1938: 12
1938
Loc

Eumerus vestitus

Bezzi, M. 1912: 442
1912
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