@article {23514,
	title = {A preliminary account of the fly fauna in Jabal Shada al-A{\textquoteright}la Nature Reserve, Saudi Arabia, with new records and biogeographical remarks (Diptera, Insecta)},
	journal = {ZooKeys},
	volume = {636},
	year = {2016},
	month = {2016/11/24},
	pages = {107-139},
	abstract = {<p>The first list of insects of Al-Baha Province, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia\&nbsp; (KSA) was published in 2013 and contained a total of 582 species; an\&nbsp; addendum to this list was published in 2015 adding 142 species and bringing the total number recorded from the province to 724 insect species representing 17 orders. The previous two studies excluded Jabal Shada al-A\&$\#$39;la Nature Reserve (SANR), so the present study in SANR, as belonging to Al-Baha Province, are complementary to the previous two. The present study presents a preliminary list of Diptera (Insecta) in SANR, with remarks on their zoogeography, and is the first of a series of planned ecological and systematic studies on different insect orders as one of the outputs of a project proposed to study the entire insect fauna of SANR. A total number of 119 Diptera species belonging to 87 genera, 31 tribes, 42 subfamilies, and representing 30 families has been recorded from SANR in the present study. Some species have been identified only to the genus level and listed herein only because this is the first time to record their genera in KSA. Fourteen of the species are recorded for the first time for KSA, namely: Forcipomyia sahariensis Kieffer, 1923 (Ceratopogonidae); Chaetosciara sp. (Sciaridae); Neolophonotus sp. 1; Neolophonotus sp. 2; Promachus sinaiticus Efflatoun, 1934; Saropogon longicornis (Macquart, 1838); Saropogon sp. (Asilidae); Spogostylum tripunctatum (Pallas in Wiedemann, 1818) (Bombyliidae); Phycus sp. (Therevidae); Hemeromyia sp.; Meoneura palaestinensis Hennig, 1937 (Carnidae); Desmometopa inaurata Lamb, 1914 (Milichiidae); Stomoxys niger Macquart, 1851 (Muscidae); and Sarcophaga palestinensis (Lehrer, 1998) (Sarcophagidae). Zoogeographic affinities of recorded fly species suggest a closer affiliation to the Afrotropical region (46\%) than to the Palearctic region (23.5\%) or the Oriental region (2.5\%). This supports the previous studies\&$\#$39; conclusions and emphasizes the fact that parts of the Arabian Peninsula, including Al-Baha Province, ought to be a part of the Afrotropical Region rather than of the Palaearctic Region or the Eremic Zone.</p>
},
	doi = {doi: 10.3897/zookeys.636.9905},
	author = {El-Hawagry, M. S. and Abdel-Dayem, M. S. and Elgharbawy, A. A. and Al Dha, H. M.}
}
@article {23237,
	title = {A preliminary study on the insect fauna of Al-Baha Province, Saudi Arabia, with descriptions of two new species},
	journal = {ZooKeys},
	volume = {274},
	year = {2013},
	month = {2013/03/01},
	pages = {1{\textendash}88},
	abstract = {<p>A preliminary study was carried out on the insect fauna of Al-Baha Province, south-western part of Saudi Arabia. A total number of 582 species and subspecies (few identified only to the genus level) belonging to 129 families and representing 17 orders were recorded. Two of these species are described as new, namely: Monomorium sarawatensis Sharaf \&amp; Aldawood, sp. n. [Formicidae, Hymenoptera] and Anthrax alruqibi El-Hawagry sp. n. [Bombyliidae, Diptera]. Another eight species are recorded for the first time in Saudi Arabia, namely: Xiphoceriana arabica (Uvarov, 1922) [Pamphagidae, Orthoptera], Pyrgomorpha conica (Olivier, 1791) [Pyrgomorphidae, Orthoptera], Catopsilia florella (Fabricius, 1775) [Pieridae, Lepidoptera], Anthrax chionanthrax (Bezzi, 1926) [Bombyliidae, Diptera], Spogostylum near tripunctatum Pallas in Wiedemann, 1818 [Bombyliidae, Diptera],\&nbsp; Cononedys dichromatopa (Bezzi, 1925) [Bombyliidae, Diptera], Mydas sp. [Mydidae, Diptera], and Hippobosca equina Linnaeus, 1758 [Hippoboscidae, Diptera]. Al-Baha Province is divided by huge and steep Rocky Mountains into two main sectors, a lowland coastal plain at the west, known as \&ldquo;Tihama\&rdquo;, and a mountainous area with an elevation of 1500 to 2450 m above sea level at the east, known as \&ldquo;Al-Sarat or Al-Sarah\&rdquo; which form a part of Al-Sarawat Mountains range. Insect species richness in the two sectors (Tihama and Al-Sarah) was compared, and the results showed that each of the two sectors of Al-Baha Province has a unique insect community. The study generally concluded that the insect faunal composition in Al-Baha Province has an Afrotropical flavor, with the Afrotropical elements predominant, and a closer affiliation to the Afrotropical region than to the Palearctic region or the Eremic zone. Consequently, we tend to agree with those biogeographers who consider that parts of the Arabian Peninsula, including Al-Baha Province, should be included in the Afrotropical region rather than in the Palaearctic region or the Eremic zone.</p>
},
	keywords = {Afrotropical, Arabian Peninsula, Eremic, Insect species, List, Palaearctic},
	doi = {doi: 10.3897/zookeys.274.4529},
	url = {www.zookeys.org},
	author = {El-Hawagry, M. S. and Khalil, M. W. and Sharaf, M. R. and Fadl, H. H. and Aldawood, A. S.}
}
