Phaonia virgata Stein, 1913

Dawah, Hassan A., Abdullah, Mohammed A. & Deeming, John C., 2020, The Muscidae (Diptera) of Saudi Arabia, descriptions of two new species, new records and updated list of species, Zootaxa 4869 (1), pp. 1-54 : 19-22

Phaonia virgata Stein, 1913 ( Fig. 24 )

Phaonia virgata Stein, 1913: 481 .

Specimens examined. 1f, Jazan, Fifa, Al-Tatweer Centre, 5–26.i.2014, Malaise trap, H.A. Dawah ( CERS).

Distribution. New to Saudi Arabia. van Emden (1948) recorded P. virgata from Yemen. No other material is known from the Arabian Peninsula ( Pont 1991: 348). It was described from South Africa.

Figures

FIGURE. 24–27. Muscidae species habitus: 24) Phaonia virgata Stein, 1913, Female; 25) Dichaetomyia luteiventris (Rondani, 1873), Male; 26) Atherigona (Atherigona) angulata Deeming, 1971, Male; 27) Atherigona (Atherigona) bedfordi Emden, 1940, Male.