Meotica subnigra ASSING, 2006

(Figs 90-93)

Meotica subnigra ASSING, 2006: 252.

Type material examined: SeeASSING (2006).

Additional material examined: CYPRUS: 1♂, 1♀, Paphos, Miliou, 8.VI.2016, leg. Miessen (cTro, cAss ); 1♂, Kannaviou, Ezousa river, 350 m, 10.III.1996, leg. Frisch (cAss) .

Comment: The original description is based on a unique male holotype from the Turkish province Kahramanmaraş. The species was subsequently recorded also from Greece (Pelopónnisos) and the Turkish province Muğla (ASSING 2013).

Based on the similar shape of the spermatheca, it seems possible that M. subnigra is conspecific with M. arasensis . Males from the vicinity of the type locality of the latter would be needed to clarify this.

Diagnosis: Body of dark coloration. Hind wings present. ♂: sternite VIII (Fig. 90) moderately transverse, posterior margin truncate; median lobe of aedeagus (Figs 91- 92) 0.27-0.31 mm long; ventral process very slender both in ventral and in lateral view, and apically acute; apical lobe of paramere weakly to moderately infuscate.

♀: sternite VIII approximately as long as broad, posterior margin broadly convex; spermatheca of the M. parasita type (Fig. 93).

For additional illustrations see ASSING (2006). The aedeagus is of similar general morphology as that of M. parasita, but distinguished by larger size, a greater distance between the smaller crista apicalis and the base of the ventral process, the presence of an indenture at the based of the ventral process (lateral view), and by a relatively smaller flagellum in the internal sac.

Distribution: Greece (Pelopónnisos); Turkey (Muğla, Kahramanmaraş); Cyprus.