Cononedys dichromatopa ( Bezzi, 1925 )

A, Magdi S., 2007, Review of the tribe Aphoebantini Becker (Bombyliidae, Diptera) from Egypt, with description of a new species, Zootaxa 1630, pp. 47-54 : 50-52

Cononedys dichromatopa ( Bezzi, 1925)

Aphoebantus dichromatopa Bezzi, 1925: 207 . Type locality: Egypt.

Diagnosis: Frons dark brown to brown in ground color, with long black bristly hairs, mixed with shorter somewhat broad slightly yellowish white scales become denser at lower part above antennae; antennae dark brown to brown covered at most parts with minute whitish vestiture; face covered with long brownish black hairs mixed with some whitish ones and some yellowish short broad scales; occiput with yellowish scales. Thorax with long yellowish white bristly hairs, covered with white scales become yellowish at posterior part and scutellum. Abdomen covered with dense white scaly hairs on 2nd tergite, become thinner and yellowish on other tergites; bristles at posterior half of abdomen black, with yellowish white bristly hairs at anterior half. Male genitalia (fig. 1). Spermatheca (fig. 5).

Distribution: Palaearctic: Egypt, Israel.

Lectotype designation: Bezzi (1925) originally described this species based on an unspecified number of specimens captured by Efflatoun Bey from Mariout (at North Cost of Egypt, western of Alexandria) in March and April, 1923 and 1927. Only two males and one female with the same data and having red type labels are preserved in ESC. They are in a fair condition. The best preserved of them (male, 15.3.1923) is here designated as lectotype.

Material examined: Lectotype, male, Mariout, 15.3.1923 (Efflatoun) here designated; paralectotype, male, Mariout, 12.4.1923 (Efflatoun), paralectotype, female, 25.3.1927 (Efflatoun). [ESC].

Male, Burg, 25.3.1927 (H.C.E & M.T); 2 females, 1 male, Ein Gedeirat, 13- 22.4.1938; 2 females, 1 male, Mariout, 25.3.1927 (Efflatoun; 1 female, Mariout, 8.3.1925 (Efflatoun). [ EFC].