Palpomyia flavipes ( Meigen, 1804 )

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, European Journal of Taxonomy 318, pp. 1-30 : 17

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2017.318
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3847286
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scientific name	Palpomyia flavipes ( Meigen, 1804 )
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Palpomyia flavipes ( Meigen, 1804) View in CoL

Ceratopogon flavipes Meigen, 1804: 28 View in CoL (♂, locality not given).

Ceratopogon hortulanus Meigen, 1818: 81 View in CoL (♀, Europe).

Ceratopogon flavipes View in CoL – Walker 1856: 228 (♀, Great Britain; = C. hortulanus View in CoL ).

Palpomyia flavipes View in CoL – Kieffer 1901: 157 (♂, combination). — Krzywiński 1995: 75 (♂, ♀, distribution).

Diagnosis

Body with flattened setae with thin, whip-like tips; thorax uniformly dark. Legs yellow; femora as well as fore and mid tibiae with apical brown bands; hind tibia brown; fore femur with 5–8 spines. Male genitalia with relatively short gonocoxite; gonostylus almost straight, as long as gonocoxite; parameres fused, slender, expanded apically; aedeagus triangular with low basal arch and evenly rounded apex. Females with 2 large oval seminal capsules with short necks.

Material examined

ISRAEL: 1 ♀, Dan, 21 Jul. 1983, I. Nussbaum leg. ( TAU); 1 ♀, same collection data except 28 Sep. 1983 ( TAU); 1 ♀, Park Hayarden, 7 May 1987, I. Yarom leg. ( TAU); 2 ♀♀, same collection data except 7 May 1987, F. Kaplan leg. ( TAU); 1 ♀, same collection data except 14 Apr. 1999, A. Freidberg leg. ( TAU); 1 ♂, Lifta, 10 May 1987, I. Nussbaum leg. ( TAU).

Distribution

Armenia, Europe ( Andorra, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, N and NW Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine), Georgia, Kazakhstan and Turkey ( Remm 1988; Szadziewski et al. 2013; Turgut & Kilic 2015). The above records are the first from Israel.

References

Kieffer J. J. 1901. Synopse des representants europeens du groupe Ceratopogon, avec description d'especes nouvelles. Bulletin de la Societe d'Histoire naturelle de Metz 9: 143 - 165. Available from http: // biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 33770412 [accessed 3 Apr. 2017].

Krzywinski J. 1995. Rewizja Systematyczna Drapieznych Kuczmanow Plemienia Palpomyiini Polski (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). PhD Thesis (manuscript). Uniwersytet Gdanski, Gdansk, Poland.

Meigen J. W. 1804. Klassifikation und Beschreibung der Europaischen Zweiflugeligen Insekten (Diptera Linn.). Vol. 1. XXX, Braunschweig.

Meigen J. W. 1818. Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten Europaischen Zweiflugeligen Insekten. Part 1. Beaufort Sohn, Aachen, Germany. Available from http: // biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 12741784 [accessed 4 Apr. 2017].

Remm H. 1988. Family Ceratopogonidae. In: Soos A. & Papp L. (eds) Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera 3: 11 - 110. Akademiai Kiado, Budapest.

Szadziewski R., Borkent A. & Dominiak P. 2013. Ceratopogonidae. In: Beuk P. & Pape T. (eds) Fauna Europaea: Diptera Nematocera. Fauna Europaea v. 2.6. 2. Available from http: // www. faunaeur. org [accessed 4 Apr. 2017].

Turgut F. & Kilic A. Y. 2015. The Ceratopogonidae (Insecta: Diptera) fauna of the Central Black Sea Region in Turkey. Turkish Journal of Zoology 39 (6): 1071 - 1089. https: // doi. org /: 10.3906 / zoo- 1410 - 33

Walker F. 1856. Insecta Britannica. Diptera. Vol. 3. Reeve and Benham, London.