Notiphila (Notiphila) ignobilis Loew, 1862

Dawah, Hassan A., Ahmad, Syed K., Abdullah, Mohammed A. & Zatwarnicki, Tadeusz, 2019, An overview of the Ephydridae (Diptera) of Saudi Arabia, Zootaxa 4711 (3), pp. 401-445 : 417-418

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scientific name	Notiphila (Notiphila) ignobilis Loew, 1862
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Notiphila (Notiphila) ignobilis Loew, 1862 View in CoL

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Notiphila ignobilis Loew, 1862b: 12 View in CoL : Cogan 1968: 303–305 [revision]; Dawah & Abdullah 2006: 387 [fauna, Saudi Arabia]; El-Hawagry et al. 2016: 125; 2017: 1516 View Cited Treatment [ Saudi Arabia].

Notiphila confinis Adams 1905: 178 View in CoL : Cresson 1947: 120 [synonymy].

Specimens examined. 2 ♀, Asir, Mahayil Asir, Wadi Hali Garden , sweeping grasses, 9. i. 2003, H.A. Dawah ( CERS) .

Other Saudi Arabian records: Al-Baha Region: Jabal Shada al-A’la Nature Reserve ( El-Hawagry et al. 2016); Asir Region: Garf Raydah Nature Reserve ( El-Hawagry et al. 2017); Wadi Hali ( Dawah & Abdullah 2006).

Distribution. This species was previously recorded from Saudi Arabia by Dawah & Abdullah (2006) and El- Hawagry et al. (2016, 2017). The species has been collected in South Africa (Caffraria) and widespread in Afrotropical Region: Angola, Kenya, Madagascar, Nigeria, Namibia, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. There are some specimens in NMWC collected from Burkina Faso, Gambia, Kenya, and Nigeria.

Remarks. This species shows considerable variation in the male genitalic structure and colour. The male genitalia provides reliable characters for differentiating it from closely related species of Notiphila ( Cogan, 1968) . Larvae of Notiphila species live mainly in oxygen-deficient mud at the edges of ponds and lakes, where they feed on detritus and microorganisms. In west Africa the puparia of this species have been found in paddy fields with the posterior spiracles penetrating the aerenchyma of rice roots (Dr. J.C. Deeming; pers. comm.).

References

Adams, C. F. (1905) Diptera africana, I. The Kansas University Science Bulletin, 3, 149 - 208. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 8100

Cogan, B. H. (1968) A revision of the Ethiopian species of the tribe Notiphiline (Diptera: Ephydridae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology, 21 (6) 279 - 365.

Cresson, E. T. (1947) A systematic annotated arrangement of the genera and species of the Ethiopian Ephydridae (Diptera). II. The subfamily Notiphilinae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 73, 105 - 124.

Dawah, H. A. & Abdullah, M. A. (2006) The Ephydridae (Diptera: Brachycera: Muscomorpha) of south-western Saudi Arabia. Fauna of Arabia, 21, 383 - 394.

El-Hawagry, M. S., Abdel-Dayem, M. S., Elgharbawy, A. A. & Al Dhafer, H. M. (2016) A preliminary account of the fly fauna in Jabal Shada al-A'la Nature Reserve, Saudi Arabia, with new records and biogeographical remarks (Diptera, Insecta). Zookeys, 636, 107 - 139. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 636.9905

El-Hawagry, M. S., Abdel-Dayem, M. S., El-Sonbati, S. A. & Al Dhafer, H. M. (2017) A preliminary account of the fly fauna in Garf 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

Loew, H. (1862 b) Bidrag till kannedomen om Afrikas Diptera. Ofversigt af Kongl Vetenskaps-Akademiens Forhandlinger Stockholm, 19, 3 - 14.