Allograpta calopus ( Loew, 1858 )

Dawah, Hassan A., Abdullah, Mohammed A., Ahmad, Syed Kamran, Al-Dhafer, Hathal & Turner, James, 2020, An overview of the Syrphidae (Diptera) of Saudi Arabia, Zootaxa 4855 (1), pp. 1-69 : 13-14

Allograpta calopus ( Loew, 1858)

( Figs 8–9 )

Syrphus calopus Loew, 1858: 379

Examined specimens. 2♂, 2♀, Abha, Asir, Hay Al-Nusub ( Abha Farm Centre), 3.iii–3.vi. 2001, Malaise trap, H.A. Dawah and M.A. Abdullah ( NMWC; CERS) ; 1♀, same locality but 3.iv.2001 ( CERS) ; 1♀, same locality but 12.vi.2013 ( CERS) ; 1♀, same locality but 20.iv.2013 ( CERS) ; 1♂, Najran, Al-Shurfa, Saleh Maqbol Farm , 1–29.iv.2013, Malaise trap, H.A. Dawah ( CERS) .

Distribution. This is the first record from Saudi Arabia. It was described from South Africa and Sudan and is further recorded from other parts of the Afrotropical Region: Eritrea, Ethiopia, Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zaire ( Smith & Vockeroth 1980; Dirickx 1998; Whittington 2003) and Yemen ( Smit et al. 2017).

Genus Betasyrphus Matsumura

The genus Betasyrphus has approximately 18 species in the Afrotropical, Palaearctic and Oriental regions. Whittington (2003) in his assessment of the Afrotropical Syrphidae fauna, lists Betasyrphus among the Afrotropical genera in need of revision like most of Syrphidae .

Figures

FIGURE 8–9. Habitus of Allograpta calopus Loew, 1858. 8) Male, dorsal view, 9) Female, lateral view.