Abstract
Five bee-fly species (Bombyliidae, Diptera) have been listed in this paper as new to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Four of the recorded species have been identified to the level of species, namely: Bombomyia discoidea (Fabricius, 1794), Spogostylum candidum (Sack, 1909), Exoprosopa linearis Bezzi, 1924, and Exoprosopa minos (Meigen, 1804), while the fifth one only to genus, Desmatoneura sp. The species have been collected from Al-Baha and Asir Provinces in the south-western part of the Kingdom. One of the four identified species, Exoprosopa linearis, has an Afrotropical affinity, and another two, Spogostylum candidum and Bombomyia discoidea, have considerable Afrotropical distributions, and this result agrees to some extent with studies considering these parts of the Arabian Peninsula, including Al-Baha and Asir Provinces, having Afrotropical influences and may be included in the Afrotropical Region rather than in the Palaearctic Region or the Eremic zone.
Highlights
Al-Baha and Asir are two neighboring provinces (Fig. 1) situated in the southwestern part of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia consisting together about 91362 km2, Copyright El-Hawagry MS,Al Dhafer HM
Greathead (1980 & 1988) recorded 100 bee-fly species and subspecies in Saudi Arabia out of 149 in the entire Arabian Peninsula, in addition to 4 species subsequently recorded by El-Hawagry et al (2013) and another one was recently described by El-Hawagry and Al Dhafer (2014)
Five bee-fly species are listed, which have not been recorded from Saudi Arabia before
Summary
Al-Baha and Asir are two neighboring provinces (Fig. 1) situated in the southwestern part of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia consisting together about 91362 km2, Copyright El-Hawagry MS,Al Dhafer HM. The rainfall is throughout the year in the mountainous area (Al-Sarah) with an annual average of 405 mm in Al-Baha Province and 342 mm in Asir Province (Ibrahim and Abdoon 2005; Omer 1996 and websites: http:// www.tititudorancea.com/z/weather_al_baha_saudi_arabia.htm). Greathead (1980 & 1988) recorded 100 bee-fly species and subspecies in Saudi Arabia out of 149 in the entire Arabian Peninsula, in addition to 4 species subsequently recorded by El-Hawagry et al (2013) and another one was recently described by El-Hawagry and Al Dhafer (2014).
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