Atylotus pallescens ( Walker), 1871
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5923767 |
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Atylotus pallescens ( Walker), 1871 |
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Atylotus pallescens ( Walker), 1871 View in CoL
Tabanus ( Ochrops) pallescens Walker, 1871: 256 View in CoL .
Type-locality. Tor ( Egypt, Sinai).
Diagnosis. Blackish species; lower and middle calli jointed; wings with veins black, whitish only at basal margin; abdomen ferruginous with 3 stripes.
Local distribution: Sinai.
Geographical distribution. Egypt.
Remarks. This species is not represented in the Egyptian Reference Collections.
Chvála (1988), in his catalogue of Palaearctic Tabanidae , mentioned this as a doubtful species. Müller et al. (2012) also mentioned this species as doubtful and erroneously stated that Efflatoun (1930) placed Tabanus pallescens under “ Tabanidae of doubtful origin”. While this species was indeed not mentioned at all in the earlier Egyptian works by Kröber (1925a, b), Efflatoun (1930) and Steyskal & El-Bialy (1967). After examining the paper of original description by Walker (1871) who mentioned the type locality of species as Tor ( Sinai) we added this species to the Egyptian fauna depending on this type locality.
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