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Limnophora obsignata

Creators

  • 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

Limnophora obsignata (Rondani, 1866) (Fig. 53)

Spilogaster obsignata Rondani, 1866: 117.

Specimens examined. 1m, 5f, Asir, Keratha, Al-Ethrebany Fruit Farm, 19.ii.2014, Malaise trap, H.A. Dawah (CERS; NMWC); 1m, Najran, Al-Shurfa, Saleh Maqbol Farm, 17.ix.2014, Malaise trap, H.A. Dawah (CERS).

Distribution. This species was previously recorded from Saudi Arabia by Abu-Zoherah et al. (1993). It was described from Malta. In the Middle East it is known from Iran, Oman, United Arab Emirates and Yemen (Pont 1980; Pont 1991; Deeming 2008).

Notes

Published as part of Dawah, Hassan A., Abdullah, Mohammed A. & Deeming, John C., 2020, The Muscidae (Diptera) of Saudi Arabia, descriptions of two new species, new records and updated list of species, pp. 1-54 in Zootaxa 4869 (1) on page 34, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4869.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4418246

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Identifiers

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EF183F2C38FF8AFF3A64E7FD8006B1

Cites
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.4418286 (DOI)
Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.4869.1.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/4418246 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFD660472C19FFABFFAD6108FF960050 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/C34E9D0C-336A-4F4B-A670-2F342470839D (URL)
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https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/03EF183F2C38FF8AFF3A64E7FD8006B1 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/176596430 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/8861/taxon/03EF183F2C38FF8AFF3A64E7FD8006B1.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Collection code
CERS , CERS, NMWC
Event date
2014-02-19 , 2014-09-17
Family
Muscidae
Genus
Limnophora
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Diptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Rondani
Species
obsignata
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
2014-02-19 , 2014-09-17
Taxonomic concept label
Limnophora obsignata (Rondani, 1866) sec. Dawah, Abdullah & Deeming, 2020

References

  • Rondani, C. (1866) Anthomyinae italicae collectae distinctae et in ordinem dispositae. Atti della Societa Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civile di Storia Naturale, Milano, 9, 68 - 217.
  • Abu-Zoherah, R., Al-Taher, K. & Tilkian, S. (1993) List of Insects Recorded from Saudi Arabia. Ministry of Agriculture and Water, National Agriculture and Water Research Centre, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, 394 pp.
  • Pont, A. C. (1980) 85 Family Muscidae. In: Crosskey, R. W. (Ed.), Catalogue of the Diptera of the Afrotropical Region. British Museum (Natural History), London, pp. 721 - 761.
  • 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. (2008) Order Diptera, family Muscidae. In: van Harten, A. (Ed.), Arthropod Fauna of the United Arab Emirates. Vol. 1. Dar Al-Ummah Printing, Publishing, Distribution & Advertising, Abu Dhabi, pp. 714 - 723.