Lispe pygmaea Fallén, 1825

Dawah, Hassan A., Abdullah, Mohammed A. & Deeming, John C., 2020, The Muscidae (Diptera) of Saudi Arabia, descriptions of two new species, new records and updated list of species, Zootaxa 4869 (1), pp. 1-54 : 38-39

Lispe pygmaea Fallén, 1825

Lispe pygmaea Fallén, 1825: 94 .

Distribution. This species was previously recorded from Saudi Arabia by Pont (1991); Abu-Zoherah et al. (1993); El-Hawagry et al. (2018). It was described from Sweden. In Arabia it was recorded from Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and United Arab Emirates ( Pont 1991; Deeming 2008; Vikhrev 2016).

Taxonomic remarks. Pont (1991) reported that Al-Houty (1989) recorded L. pygmaea from Kuwait (Page:

142; Photo 472) but it is an obvious misidentification as the photograph shows an anthomyiid.

Lispe rigida Becker, 1903 ( Fig. 63 )

Lispe rigida Becker, 1903: 115 .

Specimens examined. 1m, Riyadh, Wadi Namar , 24º50’N 46º79’E , 67m, 29.ii.2012, sweeping, A. Al-Ansi ( NMWC) ; 1m, Riyadh, An Nuayriyah, Kholidiyah Farm , 27º25’N 48º27’E , 540m, 2.iii.2011, sweeping, Al Dhafer, Setyaningrum , Al-Ansi, 29.ii.2012, sweeping, A. Al-Ansi ( NMWC) .

Distribution. This species was previously recorded from Saudi Arabia by Abu-Zoherah et al. (1993) and Pont (1991). It was described from Egypt and is further recorded in the Middle East from Iran ( Pont 1991), UAE (Deeming 2009), Egypt and Israel ( Vikhrev 2012a).

Figures

FIGURE. 63–66. Muscidae species habitus: 63) Lispe rigida Becker, 1903, Male; 64) Lispe scalaris Loew, 1847, Male; 65) Lispe tentaculata (Degeer, 1776), Male; 66) Anaphalantus longicornis (Macquart, 1843), Female.