Oplodontha minuta Fabricius, 1794

El-Hawagry, Magdi, Al Dhafer, Hathal Mohammed, Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud & Hauser, Martin, 2021, The family Stratiomyidae in Egypt and Saudi Arabia (Diptera: Stratiomyoidea), Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 64212-64212 : 64212

Oplodontha minuta Fabricius, 1794

Stratiomys minuta Fabricius, 1794: 268. Type locality: India (Tranquebar).

Nemotelus pusillus Fabricius, 1794: 271. Type locality: India (Tranquebar).

Musca minutior Turton, 1801: 631. New name for Stratiomys minuta Fabricius, 1794.

Musca minor Turton, 1801: 655. New name for Nemotelus pusillus Fabricius, 1794.

Oxycera indica Brunetti, 1907: 119. Type locality: India (Uttar Pradesh: Bareilly).

Odontomyia incompleta Brunetti, 1907: 128. Nomen nudum.

Odontomyia ochracea Brunetti, 1907: 129. Type locality: India (Calcutta).

Odontomyia submutica Brunetti, 1907: 130. Type locality: India (Siliguri, Calcutta and Tollygunge).

Eulalia oasina Lindner, 1925: 150. Type locality: Egypt ( Khârga Oasis and Dakhla Oasis).

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: Efflatoun ; lifeStage: Adult ; Taxon : taxonID: https://www.gbif.org/species/1577386; scientificName: Oplodontha minuta; Location: country: Egypt; locality: Dakhla Oasis ; decimalLatitude: 25.5; decimalLongitude: 29.1667; Identification: identifiedBy: M. El-Hawagry & M. Hauser; dateIdentified: 2020-2021; Event: samplingProtocol: Not given; eventDate: 05-13-2018; Record Level: institutionCode: ESEC Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: Efflatoun ; lifeStage: Adult ; Taxon : taxonID: https://www.gbif.org/species/1577386; scientificName: Oplodontha minuta; Location: country: Egypt; locality: Ein Moussa ; decimalLatitude: 29.8667; decimalLongitude: 32.65; Identification: identifiedBy: M. El-Hawagry & M. Hauser; dateIdentified: 2020-2021; Event: samplingProtocol: Not given; eventDate: 09-20-1924; Record Level: institutionCode: ESEC Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: Storey ; sex: 1 male; lifeStage: Adult ; Taxon : taxonID: https://www.gbif.org/species/1577386; scientificName: as Eulalia oasina; Location: country: Egypt; locality: Kharga Oasis ; decimalLatitude: 25.25; decimalLongitude: 30.5833; Identification: identifiedBy: M. El-Hawagry & M. Hauser; dateIdentified: 2020-2021; Event: samplingProtocol: Not given; eventDate: 05-10-1918; Record Level: institutionCode: EFC Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: Efflatoun ; sex: 1 female; lifeStage: Adult ; Taxon : taxonID: https://www.gbif.org/species/1577386; scientificName: as Eulalia oasina; Location: country: Egypt; locality: Kharga Oasis ; decimalLatitude: 25.25; decimalLongitude: 30.5833; Identification: identifiedBy: M. El-Hawagry & M. Hauser; dateIdentified: 2020-2021; Event: samplingProtocol: Not given; eventDate: 06-12-1918; Record Level: institutionCode: EFC

Distribution

AF: Socotra Island, United Arab Emirates, Yemen. OR: India, Sri Lanka. PA: Afghanistan, Egypt, Israel. [Sources: original description of O. oasina ( Lindner 1925), Woodley (2001) and Tkoč and Rozkošný (2014)]

Local distribution and dates of collection (Fig. 6 ): EGYPT: Eastern Desert: Ein Moussa (September). Western Desert: Dakhla Oasis, Kharga Oasis (May and June). [Sources: Lindner (1925), Lindner (1930) and museum material]

Figures

Figure 6. Distribution map of Oplodontha minuta Fabricius and Oplodontha pulchriceps Loew.