Brachypogon (B.) vitiosus Winnertz, 1852

Alwin-Kownacka, Alicja, Szadziewski, Ryszard & Szwedo, Jacek, 2016, Biting midges of the tribe Ceratopogonini (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from the Middle East, with keys and descriptions of new species, Zootaxa 4079 (5), pp. 551-572 : 559

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4079.5.3
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:CC01F586-597F-4C42-9F87-DBD81CF5AAC2
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5700867
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A987B4-4743-6E65-FF0A-1800FBB8FB40
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Brachypogon (B.) vitiosus Winnertz, 1852
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Brachypogon (B.) vitiosus Winnertz, 1852 View in CoL

Ceratopogon vitiosus Winnertz, 1852: 49 View in CoL (male, female, Germany).

Ceratopogon (Brachypogon) vitiosus: Szadziewski & Havelka 1984: 350 View in CoL (male, female, Afghanistan, Algeria, Estonia, France, Germany, Lithuania, Japan, Poland, Russia: Caucasus, Middle Asia, Siberia, Spain); Országh & Chalupský 1987: 50 ( Slovakia); Dominiak et al. 2014: 134 (male, Israel, distribution).

Diagnosis. This species can be recognized by presenting following features: fourth palpal segment without long setae. Male genitalia with gonostyle slender and long; parameres fused, into single plate; aedeagus broad with rounded apex. Female with one seminal capsule ( Szadziewski & Havelka 1984).

Material examined. ISRAEL, ‘ Enot Zuqim, 19.V.1998, 1 male, leg. O. Manheim.

Distribution. Widely distributed Palaearctic species reported from Afghanistan, Algeria, Armenia, Austria, China, Estonia, France, Georgia, Germany, Israel, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Tajikistan ( Országh & Chalupský 1987, Dominiak et al. 2014).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Diptera
Family	Ceratopogonidae
Genus	Brachypogon