New fly records of potential biological control importance in Saudi Arabia (order Diptera)

Abstract Background The Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture in Saudi Arabia has begun funding some projects to set up agricultural pest control programs. Therefore, it is very important enumerate all the predacious or parasitic insects that live on other insect pests have potential become biological agents against these pests. Results In present study, nine fly species importance are recorded for first time from Arabia, namely, Spogostylum ventrale Bezzi, 1924, Prothaplocnemis anthracina (Becker, 1902) [family Bombyliidae], Alloxytropus anomalus 1925, Scenopinus minusculus (Séguy, 1934) Scenopinidae], Actorthia frontata Kröber, 1912, Hoplosathe brevistyla Lyneborg & Zaitzev, 1980 Therevidae], Hilara sp. Empididae], Tomosvaryella demeyeri Kuznetzov, 1993 Pipunculidae] Orchisia costata (Meigen, 1826) Muscidae]. addition, this record four genera Meigen Rondani Arabia. World local distributions, diagnoses, feeding behaviors colored photographs provided. Conclusion flies belonging six families