Magdi El-Hawagry‡, Hathal Mohammed Al Dhafer§, Mahmoud Abdel-Dayem§, Martin Hauser|Corresponding author: Magdi El-Hawagry ( elhawagry@gmail.com ) © Magdi El-Hawagry, Hathal Al Dhafer, Mahmoud Abdel-Dayem, Martin Hauser. This is an open access preprint distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
El-Hawagry M, Al Dhafer HM, Abdel-Dayem M, Hauser M (2021) The family Stratiomyidae in Egypt and Saudi Arabia (Diptera: Stratiomyoidea). ARPHA Preprints. https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e64247 |  |
This study systematically catalogues all known taxa of the family Stratiomyidae in Egypt and Saudi Arabia. It is one in a series of planned studies aiming to catalogue the whole order in both countries.
Twenty species belonging to seven genera and three subfamilies (Pachygastrinae, Stratiomyinae and Nemotelinae) are treated. One of these genera, Oplodontha, and two species, Oplodontha pulchriceps Loew and Oxycera turcica Üstüner & Hasbenli, are recorded herein for the first time from Saudi Arabia. A lectotype for Nemotelus matrouhensis Mohammad et al., 2009 is designated. An updated classification, synonymies, type localities, world and local distributions, dates of collection and some colored photographs are provided.