Atherigona (Atherigona) bedfordi van Emden 1940
- 1. Centre for Environmental Research and Studies, Jazan University, P. O. Box 2095, Jazan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
- 2. Department of Biology, College of Science, King Khalid University, PO Box 9004, Abha- 61413, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. mohd _ robiya @ hotmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 3323 - 3623
- 3. National Museum of Wales, Department of Natural Sciences, Entomology Section, Cardiff, CF 10 3 NP, UK. john. deeming @ museumwales. ac. uk; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6703 - 8180
Description
Atherigona (Atherigona) bedfordi van Emden, 1940 (Fig. 27)
Atherigona (Atherigona) bedfordi van Emden, 1940: 120.
Atherigona humeralis Wiedemann sensu Hennig, 1964 et auctt., non Skidmore 1985 nec Pont 1986.
Specimens examined. 1m, 1f, Asir, Abha, Hay Al-Nusub (Abha Farm Centre), 9–30.v.2014, Malaise trap, H. A. Dawah (CERS); 1m, 1f, Asir, Maraba, Al-Hudaithy Fruit Farm, 23.xii.2012, Malaise trap, H. A. Dawah (CERS); 2m, same data but 1–30.v.2004, (CERS); 3f, same data but 1–17.vi.2003 (NMWC); 1f, Asir, Abha, Madenate Al-Ameer Sultan, Hay Al-Sad, 25.ii.–25.v.2002, Malaise trap, M. A. Abdullah (NMWC).
Distribution. This species was previously recorded from Saudi Arabia by Dawah & Abdullah, (2009); El-Hawagry et al. (2017). It was described from Sudan. Pont (1991) recorded it from Oman and Deemig (2000) from Egypt.
Biological remarks. The types were reared from sorghum grown on residual water on the flood plain of the River Nile at Shendi and Shambat in Sudan (van Emden 1940). The late Dr. El-Serwy reared it from a dead heart in cultivated wheat, Triticum aestivum L., in Egypt (Deeming 2000: 284).
Taxonomic remarks. The synonymys of A. humeralis Wiedemann and A. bedfordi are very confusing. Hennig wrongly placed A. bedfordi as a junior synonym of humeralis without having seen the type. Drs. A.C. Pont and J.C. Deeming have examined the type of A. humeralis and found it to be the same species as A. ferruginea van Emden. Thus a lot of records from a variety of authors during the intervening period are based upon misidentifications.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- A , CERS , H , M , NMWC
- Event date
- 2002-02-25 , 2003-06-01 , 2004-05-01 , 2012-12-23 , 2014-05-09
- Family
- Muscidae
- Genus
- Atherigona
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Diptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- van Emden
- Species
- bedfordi
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 2002-02-25/05-25 , 2003-06-01/17 , 2004-05-01/30 , 2012-12-23 , 2014-05-09/30
- Taxonomic concept label
- Atherigona (Atherigona) bedfordi Emden, 1940 sec. Dawah, Abdullah & Deeming, 2020
References
- van Emden, F. I. (1940) s. n. In: Muscidae: B, Coenosiinae. Ruwenzori Expedition 1934 - 1935. Vol. II (4). British Museum (Natural History), London, pp. 91 - 255.
- Skidmore, P. (1985) The Biology of the Muscidae of the World. Series Entomologica 29. Dr. W. Junk Publishers, Dordrecht, 550 pp.
- Pont, A. C. (1986) Families Fannidae, Muscidae. In: Soos, A. & Papp. L. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera, Scathophagidae-Hypodermatidae. Vol. 11. Akademiai Kiado, Budapest, pp. 57 - 215.
- El-Hawagry, M. S., Abdel-Dayem, M. S., El-Sonbati & Al Dhafer, H. M. (2017) A preliminary account of the fly fauna in Gard Raydah Nature Reserve, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, with new records and biogeographical remarks (Diptera: Insecta). Journal of Natural History, 51 (25 - 26), 1499 - 1530. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222933.2017.1347299
- Pont, A. C. (1991) A review of the Fanniidae and Muscidae (Diptera) of the Arabian Peninsula. Fauna of Saudi Arabia, 12, 312 - 265.
- Deeming, J. C. (2000) Muscidae: Atherigonini (Diptera: Muscoidea). Cimbebasia Memoir, 9, 283 - 287.