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Issue: Vol. 2926 No. 1: 22 Jun. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-06-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2926.1.3
Page range: 55–60
Abstract views: 34
PDF downloaded: 2

Revision of Efflatouniella Kröber, 1927 (Diptera: Therevidae)

Department of Entomology, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Abbassia- Cairo, Egypt
Department of Entomology, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Abbassia- Cairo, Egypt
Diptera Phycinae stiletto fly Egypt

Abstract

In this paper, the genus Efflatouniella Kröber is rediagnosed and redescribed with material from Egypt and Israel. Efflatouniella aegyptiaca Kröber, 1927 is redescribed while E. legaensis sp. nov. and E. sinatica sp. nov. are described from South Sinai. Keys to the Egyptian phycine genera and to species of the genus Efflatouniella are included.

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