Elachiptera simplicipes Becker, 1910a

Dawah, Hassan A., Abdullah, Mohammed A. & Deeming, John C., 2020, An overview of the Chloropidae (Diptera) of Saudi Arabia, Zootaxa 4791 (1), pp. 1-71 : 20

Elachiptera simplicipes Becker, 1910a

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Elachiptera simplicipes Becker, 1910a: 425 .

Specimens examined. 1♂, Asir, Abha, Madenate Al-Ameer Sultan , 1.ii.2012, sweeping cultivation under palms, J.C. Deeming ( NMWC) ; 1♂, 2♀, same data but 25.ii.–25.v.2002, Malaise trap, H.A. Dawah ( NMWC) ; 1♂, Asir, Tanoma, Al-Kerya Village , sweeping grasses, 20.iii.2003, H.A. Dawah ( NMWC) .

Distribution. This species was previously recorded from Saudi Arabia by Dawah & Abdullah (2006); El-Hawagry et al. (2017). It was described from Kenya and is further recorded from Ethiopia, Liberia, Oman, Rwanda, Tanzania, Zaire, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Uganda and Yemen ( Sabrosky 1980) (NMWC collection).

Biology. Species of Elachiptera are secondary shoots attackers of Poaceae , gymnosperm cones and decaying vegetable matter. In Ethiopia this species has been reared from shoots of Eragrostis tef (Zucc.) (Deeming & Al- Dhafer 2012).

Figures

FIGURE 16. Elachiptera simplicipes Becker, 1910. Female.