Nemestrinus

El-Hashash, Arafa Elsayed, Badrawy, Haitham Badrawy Mousa & Ibrahim, Ayman Mohyie-Eldin, 2021, A review of tangle-veined flies (Nemestrinidae, Diptera) in Egypt, ZooKeys 1071, pp. 11-42 : 11

Nemestrinus

Nemestrinus Latreille, 1802: 437. Type species: Nemestrinus reticulatus Latreille, 1802: 437.

Rhynchocephalus Fischer, 1806: 219-220.

Andrenomyia Rondani, 1850: 189.

Heminemestrinus Bequaert, 1932: 21.

Symmictoides Bequaert, 1932: 105.

Nemestrellus Sack, 1933: 7.

Nemestrina Rondani, 1850: 189, 197: incorrect subsequent spelling of Nemestrinus Latreille, 1802 or subsequent usage of Nemestrina Blanchard, 1845: 468.

Remarks.

Currently there are six species the Egyptian fauna ( N. aegyptiacus , N. ater , N. exalbidus , N. fasciatus , N. Nemestrinus reticulatus , and N. rufipes ). The type specimens of N. jullieni deposited in ESEC have been destroyed by dermestid beetles and the types of the species N. aegyptiacus and N. rufipes and the type of latter’s synonym N. lateralis are deposited in ZMHB.

Three species ( N. caucasicus N. pallipes , and N. persicus ) have been treated as doubtful since there is no evidence of their occurrence in Egypt. This is based on their known distributions as listed in the world catalogue by Bernardi (1973), the Palaearctic catalogue by Richter (1988), and the Systema Dipterorum ( Thompson and Pape 2021). Additionally, the type localities of N. caucasicus and N. persicus are in the Caucasus, Iran, and Jaffa (Israel) respectively, not in Egypt.