Sphaerophoria bengalensis Macquart 1842
Description
Sphaerophoria bengalensis Macquart, 1842
(Figs 58–59)
Sphaerophoria bengalensis Macquart, 1842: 104.
Examined specimens. 1♂, 1♀, Al-Riyadh, Al-Uyaynah, 45 Km. W. Al-Riyadh, Ashahwan farm, 27.ii.2008, Ashahrany, alfalfa (KSMA); 1♂, Al-Riyadh, Al-Kharj, 80 km. S. Al-Riyadh, 3.iv.1982, A. Talhouk & S. Tilkian (KSMA); 1♂, Al-Riyadh, Al-Wusayl, 45km. N. Al-Riyadh, Al-Mosa farm, 7.xi.2007, Al-Bahrany (KSMA); 1♂, same locality but Ashahwan farm, 27.ii.2008, S. Ashamrany, Alfalfa (KSMA); 1♂, Al-Riyadh, Al-Kharj, 80 km. S. Al-Riyadh, 8.iii.1982, A. Talhouk & S. Tilkian (KSMA); 1♂, 1♀, Al-Riyadh, Dirab Educational Farm of King Saud University, 31.iii.1987 (KSMA); 1♂, same locality but 29.x.1989 (KSMA); 1♂, same locality but 25.xi.1989 (KSMA).
Distribution. The species was previously recorded from Saudi Arabia by Shalaby (1962) as S. menthastri (L.), while Martin (1972) and Abu-Thuraya (1982) recorded it as S. turkmenica Bańkowska, 1964. It was described from India (Bengale) and is further recorded from the Palaearctic Region: Afghanistan, Iran, Caucasus (North), China, Korea, and Japan, Turkmenistan; Oriental Region: India, Nepal, Pakistan, Punjab (Peck 1988; Subhan & Shah 2016; Ghorpadé 2009; 2014; Sengupta et al. 2016). In the Arabian Peninsula this species recorded from Oman and UAE (Smit et al. 2017).
Remarks. Ghorpadé (2009: 11) reported that the descriptions and figures of S. turkmenica in Bańkowska (1964) and Knutson (1973) are identical to S. bengalensis and it was therefore established as being a junior synonym (see also Smit et al. 2017). The adults of S. bengalensis are pollinators while their larvae feed on different species of Aphididae, some Psyllidae and Lepidoptera larvae (Rojo et al. 2003).
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- KSMA
- Event date
- 1982-03-08 , 1982-04-03 , 1987-03-31 , 1989-10-29 , 1989-11-25 , 2007-11-07 , 2008-02-27
- Family
- Syrphidae
- Genus
- Sphaerophoria
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Diptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Macquart
- Species
- bengalensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 1982-03-08 , 1982-04-03 , 1987-03-31 , 1989-10-29 , 1989-11-25 , 2007-11-07 , 2008-02-27
- Taxonomic concept label
- Sphaerophoria bengalensis Macquart, 1842 sec. Dawah, Abdullah, Ahmad, Al-Dhafer & Turner, 2020
References
- Macquart, J. (1842) Dipteres exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. 4. M e moires de la Societe des Science, de I'Agriculture et des Arts a- Lille, 4, 1841 (1), 65 - 200.
- Shalaby, F. (1962) Contribution to the insect fauna of Saudi Arabia. Bulletin of the Entomological Society of Egypt, 46, 339 - 342.
- Martin, H. E. (1972) Report to the Government of Saudi Arabia on Research in Plant Protection, based on the work of H. E. Martin. FAO entomologist, Rome, 38 pp.
- Abu-Thuraya, N. H. (1982) General Survey, Agricultural in Saudi Arabia. Ministry of Agriculture and Water. Agriculture Research Department of Plant Protection, Academic Publishing & Press, Ministry of Agriculture and Water, Riyadh, 326 pp.
- Bankowska, R. (1964) Studien uber die palaarktischen Arten der Gattung Spaerophoria St. Farg. Et Serv. (Diptera: Syrphidae). Annales Zoologici Instytut Zoologiczny, Polska Akademia Nauk. Warszawa, 22 (15), 285 - 353.
- Peck, L. V. (1988) Family Syrphidae. In: Soos, A. & Papp, L. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera. Syrphidae- Conopidae. Vol. 8. Akademiai Kiado, Budapest, pp. 11 - 230.
- Subhan, F. & Shah, M. (2016) Taxonomic study of genus Sphaerophoria Le Peletier et Serville (Diptera: Syrphidae) with three species from Northern Dry Mountains region of Pakistan. Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies, 4 (4), 1192 - 1198.
- Ghorpade, K. (2009) Freidberg, A. (1988) Some nomenclatural notes on Indian Subregion Syrphini (Diptera: Syrphidae). Colemani, 15, 3 - 13.
- Ghorpade, K. (2014) An updated Check-list of the Hover-flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) recorded in the Indian subcontinent. Colemania, 44, 1 - 30.
- Sengupta, J., Naskar, A., Maity, A., Hazra, S., Mukhopadhyay, E., Banerjee, D. & Ghosh, S. (2016) An updated distributional account of Indian Hover flies (insect: Diptera: Syrphidae). Journal of Entomology and Zoology, 4 (6), 381 - 396.
- Smit, J. T., van Harten, A. & Ketelaar, R. (2017) Order Diptera, family Syrphidae the hoverflies of the Arabian Peninsula. In: van Harten, A. (Eds.), Arthropod fauna of the UAE. Vol. 6. Department of the President's Affairs, Abu Dhabi, pp. 572 - 612.
- Rojo, S., Gilbert, F., Marcos-Garcia, M. A., Nieto, J. M. & Mier, M. P. (2003) A world review of predatory hoverflies (Diptera; Syrphidae: Syrphinae) and their prey. CIBIO ediciones, Alicante, 319 pp.