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Nilobezzia nigritibialis

  • 1. urn: lsid: zoobank. org: author: 0995 CC 31 - 5 CC 8 - 46 F 3 - BB 72 - A 4 D 76919750 A & Corresponding author: alicja. alwin @ biol. ug. edu. pl
  • 2. Email: ryszard. szadziewski @ biol. ug. edu. pl & urn: lsid: zoobank. org: author: 083 FF 55 D-C 4 C 0 - 4 C 7 D-AE 23 - 562619624664
  • 3. Email: jacek. szwedo @ biol. ug. edu. pl & urn: lsid: zoobank. org: author: 36 BAE 161 - ECCD- 4 D 89 - B 383 - C 7 CC 84 FF 0 A 89

Description

Nilobezzia nigritibialis (Ingram & Macfie, 1921)

Dicrobezzia nigritibialis Ingram & Macfie, 1921: 371 (♂, ♀, descriptions, figures, Ghana).

Nilobezzia nigritibialis – Clastrier & Wirth 1961: 212 (combination). — Boorman & Harten 2002: 455 (♀, description, Oman, Yemen).

Diagnosis

Very dark brown midges. Legs with femora and tibiae dark brown; tarsomeres 1–4 pale brown, tarsomeres 5 dark brown; female claws large, equal, with basal outer teeth; female tarsomeres 5 armed with 8–10 black slender batonnets. Male with moderately well developed gonocoxite, broad basally, gonostylus conical and reduced; aedeagus with high basal arch and broad, cap-like apex (Boorman & Harten 2002). Female with 2 subspherical, unequal seminal capsules.

Distribution

Ghana, Oman, Yemen (Boorman & Harten 2002).

Notes

Published as part of Alwin-Kownacka, Alicja, Szadziewski, Ryszard & Szwedo, Jacek, 2017, Predatory midges of the tribes Palpomyiini and Sphaeromiini (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from the Middle East, with keys and descriptions of new species, pp. 1-30 in European Journal of Taxonomy 318 on page 25, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.318, http://zenodo.org/record/3827451

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References

  • Ingram A. & Macfie J. W. S. 1921. West African Ceratopogonidae. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology 15: 313 - 377.
  • Clastrier J. & Wirth W. W. 1961. Notes on Ceratopogonidae. XIII. Ceratopogonidae of the Ethiopian region. Archives de l'Institut Pasteur d'Algerie 39: 190 - 240.
  • Boorman J. & van Harten A. 2002. Some Ceratopogonidae (Insecta: Diptera) from the Arabian Peninsula, with particular reference to the Republic of Yemen. Fauna of Arabia 19: 427 - 462.