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Palpomyia buettikeri Boorman & van Harten 2002

  • 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

Palpomyia buettikeri Boorman & van Harten, 2002

Palpomyia buettikeri Boorman & van Harten, 2002: 458 (♂, figure, description, Saudi Arabia).

Diagnosis

Scutum dark brown. Costa reaching more than ¾ of wing length. Legs uniformly brown; fore femur with 11–12 dark ventral spines; mid femur with 4 longer, more slender spines; hind femur with about 12 very long, slender spines; hind tibia with long dorsal bristles; fifth tarsomeres without ventral setae. Male gonocoxite short, stout, with subapical ventral lobe; gonostylus slender, curved, apex pointed; parameres fused, narrowed basally, distal half cylindrical, expanded; aedeagus triangular, with broad apex (Boorman & van Harten 2002).

Distribution

Saudi Arabia.

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 pages 15-16, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.318, http://zenodo.org/record/3827451

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References

  • 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.