Amictus validus Loew 1869

Arabyat, Sahar, Katbeh-Bader, Ahmad & Greathead, David, 2004, The bee flies (Diptera: Bombyliidae) of Jordan, Zootaxa 654, pp. 1-48 : 22-23

Amictus validus Loew 1869

Material: 29 specimens: Al Azraq Natural Reserve 17.V.2002 (1Ψ); Ar Ramtha 29.VII.2002 (3ɗ, 2Ψ); Ash Shajarh 22.VII.2002 (6Ψ, 8ɗ); Western Bayudah 26.VIII.2002 (6Ψ); West Irbid 17.IV.2002 (1Ψ); Zahar 17.VII.2002 (2Ψ).

Distribution: Palaearctic: Afghanistan, Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, Gruzia, Iran, Italy, Lebanon, Libya, Macedonia, Moldova, Morocco, Palestine, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Yugoslavia.

This species is a common species in the northern mountains of Jordan. It was collected from Carthamus persicus Willd (Compositae) . Males have a remarkably long bristle on the underside of the fore tarsus just in front of the tip, while in the females there is a pair of longer bristles. Males have dense black hairs surrounding the genitalia which can be easily seen without dissection.