Stichopogon elegantulus Wiedemann
Creators: name: Abu El-Hassan, Gawhara M. M.
name: Badrawy, Haitham B. M.
name: Gad Allah, Sohair M.
name: Soliman, Ahmed M.
name: Salama, Mohamed S.
name: Mohammad, Salwa K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Asilidae
Stichopogon
Stichopogon elegantulus

description: Stichopogon elegantulus (Wiedemann)
(Figs 8, 14B)
Dasypogon elegantulus Wiedemann, 1820: 270; Stichopogon aequecinctus Costa, 1844: 62; Stichopogon tener Loew, 1847: 503;
Stichopogon frauenfeldi Egger, 1855: 5;
Stichopogon riparius Loew, 1871: 93;
Stichopogon caspicus Richter, 1963: 253.
Type locality. Portugal.
Diagnosis. Length: Body 4.5̄ 7 mm, wing 2.7̄ 3.5 mm. Small blackish species with silvery-white tomentum; mystax white; antenna blackish; legs black except basal third of tibiae and base of metatarsi which are reddishbrown, pulvilli normal; cell m3 broadly open, with a short basal stalk; apical margin of abdominal tergites 2̄5 with large black spots devoid of tomentum.
Local distribution. Coastal Strip, Lower Nile Valley, Eastern Desert, Sinai, Fayoum.
Geographical distribution. Algeria, Austria, Bosnia?Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Corsica, Croatia, Egypt, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Macedonia, Malta, Middle Asia, Morocco, Palestine, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Transcaucasia, Tunisia, Turkey.
Specimens examined. Helwan, 3.IX.2005 (1 ♀) (ASUC); Abu Rawash, 15.VII.1921 (1 ♀ det. by Efflatoun); Sakkara, 31.III.1922 (1 ♀ det. by Efflatoun); Abu Kir, 9.VII.1922 (2 ♂, 2 ♀ det. by Efflatoun); Abu Kir, 3.VI.1924 (1 ♀ det. by Efflatoun); Abu Rawash, 4.V.1925 (1 ♂ det. by Efflatoun); Abu Kir, 20.VIII.1926 (1 ♀ det. by Efflatoun); Abu Kir, 8.VII.1927 (1 ♂ det. by Efflatoun); Mirsa Matrouh, VIII.1930 (4 ♂, 16 ♀); Raffa, 25.IV.1931 (1 ♂); Mirsa Matrouh, VII, VIII.1931 (1 ♂, 7 ♀); Helwan, 17.IV.1934 (1 ♀); Arish, 6.V.1934 (2 ♀); Wadi Gedeirat, 8.V.1934 (1 ♀); Wadi Wirak, N. Galalah, 4.IV.1937 (2 ♂, 9 ♀); Ein Gedeirat, 13-22.IV.1938 (1 ♂); Wadi Gedeirat, 6-10.VII.1938 (1 ♂); Wadi Gedeirat, 12-16.VII.1939 (1 ♀); Wadi El-Rabba, Sinai, 21-24.IV.1940 (1 ♀); Wadi El- Lega, 6.IX.1940 (1 ♀); Fayoum, Girza Route, 14.IV.1947 (2 ♂, 1 ♀); Rafa, Wadi El-Garadi, 21.VIII.1951 (3 ♀) (CUC); Alexandria, Ramleh, 1.VII.1920 (3 ♂, 1 ♀ det. by Efflatoun); Barrage, 25.III.1921 (2 ♀ det. by Efflatoun); Wadi Hoff, 14.IV.1921 (1 ♀ det. by Efflatoun); Ezbet El-Nakhl, 25.IV.1921 (1 end of abdomen broken det. by Efflatoun); Dashar, 28.IV.1921 (2 ♀ det. by Efflatoun); Ramleh, 17.IX.1921 (1 ♀ det. by Efflatoun); Sakkara, 31.III.1922 (1 ♂ det. by Efflatoun); Abu Kir, 9.VII.1922 (2 ♀ det. by Efflatoun) (PPDD); Abu Kir, 9.VII.1922 (2 ♀); Wadi Garawi, 19.IV.1923 (1 ♀); Abu kir, 3.VI.1924 (2 ♀); Nouzha, Alexandria, 30.VII.1924 (1 ♀); Mansouriah, 28.IV.1926 (3 ♀); Abu Kir, 20. VIII.1926 (1 ♀) (AUCE).
description: Published as part of Abu El-Hassan, Gawhara M. M., Badrawy, Haitham B. M., Gad Allah, Sohair M., Soliman, Ahmed M., Salama, Mohamed S. & Mohammad, Salwa K., 2017, Review of robber flies of the genus Stichopogon Loew (Diptera: Asilidae: Stichopogoninae) from Egypt, pp. 142-160 in Zootaxa 4242 (1) on pages 151-152, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4242.1.7, http://zenodo.org/record/376052