Eumerus mucidus Bezzi, 1921

Dawah, Hassan A., Abdullah, Mohammed A., Ahmad, Syed Kamran, Al-Dhafer, Hathal & Turner, James, 2020, An overview of the Syrphidae (Diptera) of Saudi Arabia, Zootaxa 4855 (1), pp. 1-69 : 29

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4855.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:28A15E99-7A79-40CA-A0C6-1DC501B69E46
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4498689
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/CD39879E-2B77-491B-FF5B-659F53A6F8F6
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Eumerus mucidus Bezzi, 1921
status

Treatment

Eumerus mucidus Bezzi, 1921 View in CoL

Eumerus mucidus Bezzi, 1921: 16 View in CoL

Distribution. This species was recently recorded from Saudi Arabia by El-Hawagry et al. (2018). It was described from Tatahonina (Africa sept.?) and is further recorded from Armenia, Egypt and Israel (Kaplan 1974; Shaumar & Kamal 1978; Smith & Vockeroth 1980; Piwowarczyk & Mielczarek 2018).

Remarks. Piwowarczyk & Mielczarek (2018) reported that the larvae E. mucidus causes damage and breakage of the plant Cistanche armena (K. Koch) M.V. Agab. (Orobanchaceae) when boring channels in fresh tubers and shoots.