Atylotus agrestis  1828
Creators: name: Abu El-Hassan, Gawhara M. M.
name: Badrawy, Haitham B. M.
name: Fadl, Hassan H.
name: Mohammad, Salwa K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tabanidae
Atylotus
Atylotus agrestis

description: Atylotus agrestis (Wiedemann), 1828
(Figs 5, 10, 12)
Tabanus agrestis Wiedemann, 1828: 557.
Tabanus albicans Macquart, 1834: 204.
Tabanus ditoeniatus Macquart, 1838: 126.
Tabanus pyrrhus Walker, 1850: 47.
Tabanus infans Walker, 1850: 50.
Tabanus ditaeniatus Walker, 1854: 236.
Tabanus bipunctatus van der Wulp, 1885: 72.
Tabanus nigromaculatus Ricardo, 1900: 165.
Tabanus adjacens Ricardo, 1911: 248.
Tabanus lacustris Ghidini, 1938: 343.
Tabanus ghidini Pechuman, 1949: 84.
Type locality. Egypt.
Diagnosis. Length. (male) body 10.8–14.5 mm, wing 8.45–10.3 mm; (female) body 11.3–13.4 mm, wing 9.7– 10.2 mm.
Frons in females greyish tomented, parallel sided, frontal index in female 2.66–2.69; eyes bare; post-occipital rim narrow and short in male; wing veins pale yellow, R 4 with short appendix; abdomen whitish grey with 4 greyish brown longitudinal spots, the two median longitudinal spots forming a broad median longitudinal dark brown stripe.
Local distribution: Coastal strip, Upper Nile, Lower Nile, Western Desert.
Geographical distribution. China, Egypt, India, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, widespread through Palaearctic and Afrotropical regions.
Specimens examined. Sentris, 19.II.1951 (1 ♀); Kerdasa, 16.III.1952 (1 ♀); Kom Osheim, 9.V.1954 (1 ♀); Mansourah, 15.X.1956 (1 ♀); Khor Galal, 19.IX.1997 (1 ♀); Kafer El-Sheikh, 10.VI.1993 (1 ♀); El-Fayoum, 25.X.1994; El-Fayoum, III.2008 (1 ♂); Alexandria, Abeis, 1.VIII.2008 (1 ♂); El-Khanka, 15. VIII.2 0 0 9 (1 ♀); Bahariya Oasis, VII.2012 (2 ♂); Tanta, 28.VIII.–1.IX.2012. (2♀, 3♂) (ASUC); El-Marg, 25.V.1921 (1 ♂); Fayed, 24.IX.1925 (1 ♂); Gabel-Asfer, 27.X.1925 (1 ♀); Mirsa Matrouh, III. 1930 (1 ♀); Helwan, 28.III.1939 (2 ♂, 1 ♀); 30.V.1945 (1 ♀); El-Fayoum, 5.VIII.1946 (1 ♀); El-Fayoum, 15.VIII.1946 (4 ♂, 6 ♀); El-Fayoum, 1.III.1947 (1 ♀); El-Fayoum, 12.VI.1948 (3 ♀) (CUC); Gabal-Asfer, 15.I.1925 (1 ♀); Faraskure, 12.VI.1925 (1 ♂); Wadi Abu El-Nesour, 23.X.1925 (1 ♀); Kharga Oasis, 12.VI.1926 (3 ♀); Kharga Oasis, 20.IX.1926 (2 ♀) (ESEC); Meadi, 11.V.1913 (1 ♀); Upper Egypt train, 24.IX.1914 (1 ♀); Meadi, 20.VII.1915 (1 ♀); Cairo, 4.VI.1917 (1 ♀); Alexandria, Nouzha, 15.VII.1920 (1 male); Ezbet El-Nakhl, 11.V.1921 (1 ♀); El-Marg, 25.V.1921 (2 ♂, 1 ♀); Nouzha, 26.VI.1921 (2 ♀); Nouzha, 5.VII.1921 (4 ♂ (1 “cotype” of Atylotus agrestis), 5 ♀); Nouzha, 18.VII. 1921 (1 ♂, 1 ♀); Cleopatra, 14.VIII.1921 (1 ♀); Mobar Bez, 3.IX.1921 (1 ♂); Ezbet El-Nahkl, 20.IV.1924 (1 ♂, 3 ♀); Ezbet El-Nahkl, 25.IV.1924 (2 ♂); Faraskure, 7.VII.1926 (1 ♂); Baharyia Oasis, 1.VI.1927 (1 ♀); Meadi, 11.VI.1931 (1 ♂), Meadi, 5.IX.1931 (1 ♂); El-Fayoum, Kom Osheim, 2.V.1965 (2 ♀) (PPDD).
Remarks. Müller et al. (2012) mentioned this species as a record for the Sinai Peninsula.
description: Published as part of Abu El-Hassan, Gawhara M. M., Badrawy, Haitham B. M., Fadl, Hassan H. & Mohammad, Salwa K., 2019, Review of the horse flies of the genus Atylotus Osten Sacken, 1876 (Diptera: Tabanidae) from Egypt, with description of a new species, pp. 79-86 in Zootaxa 4551 (1) on pages 81-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4551.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/2622617