Syntormon pallipes (Fabricius, 1794)

Dawah, Hassan A., Ahmad, Syed Kamran, Abdullah, Mohammed A. & Grichanov, Igor Ya., 2020, The family Dolichopodidae (Diptera) of the Arabian Peninsula: identification key, an updated list of species and new records from Saudi Arabia, Journal of Natural History 54 (21 - 22), pp. 1425-1454 : 1447-1448

Syntormon pallipes (Fabricius, 1794)

( Figure 6E )

Specimens examined

1♀, Asir, Al-Souda, Al-Muqtha Dam, 1 .ii .2012, sweeping, H.A. Dawah ( CERS) .

Distribution

This is the first record from Saudi Arabia. The species was described from Germany and further recorded from many countries of the Palaearctic (including Algeria, Egypt, Iran,

Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia and Turkey), Afrotropical (including Yemen) and Oriental regions: China (Grichanov et al. 2017; Kechev 2017; Grichanov 2018)

Figures

Figure 6. Dolichopodid species habitus: a – Micromorphus albipes (Zetterstedt); b – Condylostylus longicornis (Fabricius); c – Sympycnus basilaris (Curran); e – Syntormon pallipes (Fabricius); d – Syntormon pumilus (Meigen).