A review of tangle-veined flies (Nemestrinidae, Diptera) in Egypt.

ABSTRACT: The Egyptian fauna of the genus Nemestrinus Latreille, 1802 is revised. In 1967, Steyskal and El-Bialy listed 12 species from the region, but only six species are now recognized. The primary type specimens of the species N.aegyptiacus (Wiedemann, 1828), N.rufipes (Olivier, 1810), and N.lateralis Wiedemann, 1828 (N.lateralis being a synonym of N.rufipes) deposited in the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany were examined. Two species (N.abdominalis Olivier, 1811 and N.fascifrons (Bigot, 1888) are placed as new synonyms of N.ater (Olivier, 1811), and N.ruficornis Macquart, 1840 is synonymized with N.rufipes (Olivier, 1811). Nemestrinusjullieni (Efflatoun, 1925) is confirmed as a synonym of N.aegyptiacus<

SUBMITTER: El-Hashash AE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8610966 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature