Cytherea obscura Fabricius, 1794

Arabyat, Sahar, Katbeh-Bader, Ahmad & Greathead, David, 2004, The bee flies (Diptera: Bombyliidae) of Jordan, Zootaxa 654, pp. 1-48 : 25

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.158701

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6272284

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Cytherea obscura Fabricius, 1794
status

 

Cytherea obscura Fabricius, 1794 View in CoL

Material: Three specimens: Al Jubayhah 13.V.1974 (1ɗ); Ar Rumman 18.V.2001 (1ɗ); Nahlah 9.VII.1974 (1Ψ).

Distribution: Palaearctic: Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bosnia­Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Greece, Gruzia, Iran, Italy, Lebanon, Macedonia, Moldova, Morocco, Palestine, Portugal, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Yugoslavia.

This species exhibits unstable venation in some specimens, some have a supernumerary anterior transverse veins in each wing ( Austen, 1937). It is recorded as predator on the eggs of Calliptamus italicus (Linnaeus) and Dociostaurus maroccanus (Thunberg) (du Merle, 1975).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Bombyliidae

SubFamily

Cythereinae

Genus

Cytherea

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