Atherigona (Atherigona) bedfordi van Emden 1940
- Dataset
- The Muscidae (Diptera) of Saudi Arabia, descriptions of two new species, new records and updated list of species
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Diptera
- family
- Muscidae
- genus
- Atherigona
- species
- Atherigona bedfordi
distribution
Distribution. This species was previously recorded from Saudi Arabia by Dawah & Abdullah, (2009); El-Hawagry et al. (2017). It was described from Sudan. Pont (1991) recorded it from Oman and Deemig (2000) from Egypt. Biological remarks. The types were reared from sorghum grown on residual water on the flood plain of the River Nile at Shendi and Shambat in Sudan (van Emden 1940). The late Dr. El-Serwy reared it from a dead heart in cultivated wheat, Triticum aestivum L., in Egypt (Deeming 2000: 284). Taxonomic remarks. The synonymys of A. humeralis Wiedemann and A. bedfordi are very confusing. Hennig wrongly placed A. bedfordi as a junior synonym of humeralis without having seen the type. Drs. A. C. Pont and J. C. Deeming have examined the type of A. humeralis and found it to be the same species as A. ferruginea van Emden. Thus a lot of records from a variety of authors during the intervening period are based upon misidentifications.