Eumerus ornatus Meigen 1822

Eumerus ornatus Meigen, 1822 Eumerus ornatus Meigen, 1822: 205. Type locality: Germany (Aachen & Stolberg). Eumerus fumipennis Curtis, 1839: pl. 749. Type locality: England. Nomen Nudum. Eumerus leucopyga Becker, 1921: 69. Type locality: France. World distribution: PA: Europe (southern Sweden south to the Pyrenees and northern Spain; from Britain [southern England] eastwards through central and southern Europe, including Italy [and Sicily], the former Yugoslavia, Romania and Turkey, into European parts of Russia), Egypt. Egyptian localities: Unknown. Activity period in Egypt: Unknown. Remarks: This species was listed as recorded from Egypt by Steyskal & El-Bialy (1967) and Peck (1988), but no specimens or published records have been found.Published as part of El-Hawagry, Magdi S. & Gilbert, Francis, 2019, Catalogue of the Syrphidae of Egypt (Diptera), pp. 201-248 in Zootaxa 4577 (2) on page 218, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4577.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/262964