Eupeodes ( Metasyrphus ) nuba ( Wiedemann, 1830 )

El-Hawagry, Magdi S. & Gilbert, Francis, 2019, Catalogue of the Syrphidae of Egypt (Diptera), Zootaxa 4577 (2), pp. 201-248 : 208

Eupeodes ( Metasyrphus) nuba ( Wiedemann, 1830)

Syrphus nuba Wiedemann, 1830: 136 . Type locality: Sudan (Nubia).

Syrphus interrumpens Walker, 1871: 273 . Type locality: Egypt ( Cairo).

Syrphus rufinasutus Bigot, 1884: 88 . Type locality: Morocco.

Didea annandalei Brunetti, 1919: 299 . Type locality: Iran (Seistan: Nasratabad).

Syrphus novigradensis Coe, 1960: 73 . Type locality: Yugoslavia (Dalmatia [now in Croatia]).

World distribution: AF: Eastern parts of the Afrotropical Region from Eritrea and Ethiopia south to South Africa, Sudan, UAE.OR: India, Nepal. PA: Afghanistan, Armenia, Canary Is., China, Egypt, Iran, Israel, Mediterranean basin (from southern France to Italy ( Sicily) and parts of the former Yugoslavia, Crete, Cyprus, Lebanon, Israel, Egypt and Morocco), Mongolia, Morocco, Romania, Switzerland, Syria, Transcaucasia and south-western parts of Asia ( Uzbekistan, Kirghizstan, Tajikistan) to Afghanistan and Mongolia.

Egyptian localities: Lower Nile Valley & Delta: Cairo [ Walker 1871].?Upper Nile Valley:?Nuba ( Shaumar & Kamal 1978).

Activity period in Egypt: April to September.

Remarks: This species usually flies round and over low-growing vegetation, settles on low-growing plants, and visits the yellow flowers of the Compositae ( Speight 2017) .