Similar to my last post, the honey bee parasitizing phorid Apocephalus borealis was erroneously recorded from Egypt. The photo of the fly involved is clearly Megaselia scalaris (except Fig. 4B, the ovipositor of the fly, which is an unacknowledged use of one of my photographs). The offending paper is:
“THE FIRST RECORDS OF THE PARASITE ZOMBIE FLY (APOCEPHALUS BOREALIS BRUES) ON HONEYBEE,APIS MELLIFERA IN EGYPT” by METWALLY M. KHATTAB & EL-HOSSENY, E. NOWAR.2014. International Journal of Agricultural Science and Research (IJASR)
Vol. 4, Issue 6, Dec 2014, 37-42
Interestingly, this paper assigned itself an impact factor of 4.3594!
This is one of the most ridiculous “papers” I’ve ever seen. I did a Google image search on the A. borealis oviscape image. Interestingly it only finds one online source for that image https://howlingpixel.com/i-en/Apocephalus_borealis
This appears to be some wiki that just scrapes Wikipedia, thus further divorcing the original sources of material from their origin.