Hydrellia maura Meigen 1838

• Main Authors: Dawah, Hassan A., Ahmad, Syed K., Abdullah, Mohammed A., Zatwarnicki, Tadeusz
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2019
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Ephydridae; Hydrellia; Hydrellia maura; Faroe Islands
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5191342; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE8C3FFFA5FFA1FF65FEE653E8EA1A

Hydrellia maura Meigen, 1838 Hydrellia maura Meigen, 1838: 374: Hering 1950: 238 [host plant: Potamogeton perfoliatus L. (Potamogetonaceae)]; Deeming 2002: 55 [review]. Hydrellia modesta Loew 1860: 23: Brocher 1910: 170–176 [immature stages]; Séguy 1934: 430 [synonymy]. Hydropota modesta : Coe 1945: 396 [generic combination]. Hydrellia griseola variety modesta: Cresson 1932: 6 [revised status]. Hydrellia incana form modesta : Nye 1958: 441–443 [larva; host plants]. Specimens examined. 1 ♂, Asir, Abha, Hay Al-Nusub (Abha Farm Centre), 1–25. v. 2013, Malaise trap. H.A. Dawah (CERS); 1 ♂, same data but 23. viii.–13. x. 2013. Distribution. This is the first record from Saudi Arabia and Arabian Peninsula. This species was described from Germany (Baiern) and further recorded from the Afrotropical Region: South Africa; Palaearctic Region: Algeria, Armenia, Austria, Azores, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canary Islands, Czechia, Egypt, Faroe Islands, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Jordan, Madeira Islands, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Spain, Madeira Islands, Sweden, Switzerland. Published as part of Dawah, Hassan A., Ahmad, Syed K., Abdullah, Mohammed A. & Zatwarnicki, Tadeusz, 2019, An overview of the Ephydridae (Diptera) of Saudi Arabia, pp. 401-445 in Zootaxa 4711 (3) on page 417, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4711.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3586476