Aphoebantus wadensis 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 : 48-49

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Aphoebantus wadensis Bezzi, 1925: 208 View in CoL . Type locality: Egypt.

Diagnosis: Frons dark brown, shining, covered with gray dusts at lower part; hairs on frons and occiput coarse, long, yellowish or brownish whit or both; face bare at upper part with yellowish white beard at oral margin; antennae black. Thorax and abdomen covered with yellowish short scaly hairs; all bristles and hairs of thorax and abdomen yellowish or brownish white mixed with some white ones. Male genitalia (fig. 4) dark brown, gonocoxae with a short narrow apical part, aedeagus broad at base, conical, and as long as aedeagal sheath which has a spine at tip. Spermatheca (fig. 6) with an elongated bulb having a constriction at its apical third.

Distribution: Palaearctic: Egypt and Israel.

Lectotype designation: Bezzi (1925) described this species based on an unspecified number of specimens captured by Efflatoun Bey from Wadi Hoff (south eastern of Cairo) in 10.3.1922. As many other type specimens, they were preserved in the personal collection of Efflatoun Bey who transferred them to the collection of the Entomological Society of Egypt (ESC). Only one male 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) is here designated lectotype.

Material examined: Lectotype, male, Wadi Hoff, 10.3.1922 (Efflatoun) here designated; paralectotype, female, same data. [ESC].

1 female, W. Zohleiga, 25- 29.3.1925 (H.C.E & M.T); 1 female, W. El-Gabow (Helwan), 7.3.1925 (Farag); 1 male, female, W. Murrah, 1.3.1925 (H.C.E & M.T); 1 male, female, Wadi Wirak (North Galala), 4.4.1937 (Tewfik); 1 male, W. Hoff, 10.3.1930 (Farag); 2 males, Ein Gedeirat, 13- 22.4.1938 (Shafik); 4 females, 3 males, W. Rishrash, 16.4.1938 (E,T); 2 females, W. Zohleiga, 25- 29.3.1925 (H.C.E & M.T); 1 male, W. Assiout, 10.4.1925 (Sh.M). [ EFC].