Nilobezzia nigritibialis ( Ingram & Macfie, 1921 )

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 : 25

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2017.318
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3847248
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scientific name	Nilobezzia nigritibialis ( Ingram & Macfie, 1921 )
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Nilobezzia nigritibialis ( Ingram & Macfie, 1921) View in CoL

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

Nilobezzia nigritibialis View in CoL – 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).

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.

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.

Ingram A. & Macfie J. W. S. 1921. West African Ceratopogonidae. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology 15: 313 - 377.