Paragus (Paragus) strigatus (Meigen, 1822)

Paragus strigatus Meigen, 1822: 180 . Type locality: France ("Carpentras").

Paragus bimaculatus Wiedemann, 1824: 33 . Type locality: Morocco (Essaouira).

Paragus algirus Macquart, 1849: 471 . Type locality: Algeria ("Environs de Constantine ").

World distribution: PA: Algeria, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Italy, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Morocco, Portugal, Spain, Romania, Tajikistan, former Yugoslavia.

Egyptian localities: Unknown.

Activity period in Egypt: Unknown.

Remarks: This species was listed as recorded from Egypt by Steyskal & El-Bialy (1967) and Dirickx (1994), but no specimens have been found. On distributional grounds, it certainly could occur in Egypt. It usually flies among and through tall ground vegetation (Speight 2017), and visits flowers of the Umbelliferae (Carles-Tolrá, 2006) .