Ceriana dilatipes

• Main Authors: Dawah, Hassan A., Abdullah, Mohammed A., Ahmad, Syed Kamran, Al-Dhafer, Hathal, Turner, James
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2020
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Syrphidae; Ceriana; Ceriana dilatipes; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Van Veen; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4498663; https://zenodo.org/record/4498663

Ceriana dilatipes (Brunetti, 1929) (Figs 13–14) Cerioides dilatipes Brunettii, 1929: 15 Examined specimens. 1♂, Taif, Wadi Majarish, 12.ii.1983, sweeping, K. Guichard (KSMA). Distribution. This is the first record for Saudi Arabia. It was described from Zimbabwe (as “ Rhodesia ”) (Smith & Vockeroth 1980; Whittington 2003). Genus Chrysotoxum Meigen The genus Chrysotoxum comprises large, wasp-mimicking species (van Veen 2004). Species of the genus Chrysotoxum are widely distributed in all zoogeographical regions except Australasian and the Antarctic with approximately 150 species mostly in the Palaearctic region (Evenhuis et al . 2008; Thompson et al . 2010). The adult flies of European Chrysotoxum species can be found in deciduous and coniferous forests and grasslands (Speight 2020). Larvae are specialized in preying upon root aphids associated with ant nests (Rotheray & Gilbert 2011; Nedeljkovic et al . 2013; Speight 2020). : Published as part of Dawah, Hassan A., Abdullah, Mohammed A., Ahmad, Syed Kamran, Al-Dhafer, Hathal & Turner, James, 2020, An overview of the Syrphidae (Diptera) of Saudi Arabia, pp. 1-69 in Zootaxa 4855 (1) on page 15, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4855.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4411181 : {"references": ["Brunetti, E. (1929) New African Diptera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 10, 4 (19), 1 - 35. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222932908673024", "Smith, K. G. V. & Vockeroth, J. R. (1980) 38. Family Syrphidae. In: Crosskey R. W. (Ed.), Catalogue of the Diptera of the Afro- tropical Region. British Museum (Natural History), London, pp. 488 - 510.", "Whittington, A. E. (2003) The Afrotropical Syrphidae fauna: an assessment. Studia dipterologica, 10 (2), 579 - 607.", "van Veen, M. P. (2004) Hoverflies of Northwest Europe. KNNV Publishing, Utrecht, 254 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.1163 / 9789004274495", "Evenhuis, N. L., Pape, T., Pont, A. C. & Thompson, F. C. (2008) Biosystematic Database of World Diptera, Version 10. 5. Available from: http: // www. sel. barc. usda. gov / diptera / biosys. htm (accessed 25 February 2013)", "Thompson, F. C., Rotheray, G. E. & Zumbado, M. A. (2010) Syrphidae (Flower flies). In: Brown, B. V., Borkent, A., Cumming, J. M., Wood, D. M., Woodley, N. E. & Zumbado, M. A. (Eds.), Manual of Central American Diptera. Vol. 2. NRC Research Press, Ottawa, pp. 763 - 792.", "Speight, M. C. D. (2020) Species accounts of European Syrphidae (Diptera), 2020. Syrph the Net, the database of European Syrphidae (Diptera). Vol. 104. Syrph the Net publications, Dublin, 313 pp.", "Rotheray, G. E. & Gilbert, F. (2011) The Natural History of Hoverflies. The Blissett Group, London, xiv + 334 pp.", "Nedeljkovic, Z., Acanski, J., Vujic, A., Obreht, D., Dan, M., Stahls, G & Radenkovic, S. (2013) Taxonomy of Chrysotoxum festivum Linnaeus, 1758 (Diptera: Syrphidae) - an integrative approach. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 169, 84 - 102. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / zoj. 12052"]}