Nilobezzia, Kieffer, 1921

Borkent, Art, 2024, The Phylogeny of the Genera of Biting Midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) of the World, Zootaxa 5438 (1), pp. 1-274 : 236

Nilobezzia :

- Male with gonocoxite and gonostylus fused, with gonostylus much reduced at very apex (as indicated by a weak line of demarcation). This feature is unique in the Culicomorpha. Some Chironominae have a fused gonocoxite and gonostylus but it remains evident that the gonostylus is of normal length with the presence of a constriction between the gonocoxite and gonostylus in nearly all of these. Some Riethia Kieffer ( Cranston 2019) are fused in a somewhat similar manner to that of Nilobezzia , obviously a case of homoplasy.