Micromorphus aereus (Vaillant, 1953)

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 : 1445

Micromorphus aereus (Vaillant, 1953)

( Figure 6A )

Specimens examined

1♂, Asir, Abha, Hay Al-Nusub, 30 .v .2014, Malaise trap, H.A. Dawah ( CERS); 2♂, same data but 1–25 .v .2013 (CERS).

Distribution

This is the first record from Saudi Arabia. The species was described from Algeria and further recorded from Egypt and Israel ( Grichanov 2017a).

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).