Bezzia (Bezzia) flavicornis ( Staeger, 1839 )

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 : 3-4

Bezzia (Bezzia) flavicornis ( Staeger, 1839)

Ceratopogon flavicornis Staeger, 1839: 599 (♂, ♀, Denmark).

Ceratopogon flavipalpis Winnertz, 1852: 80 (♀, Germany).

Bezzia flavipluma Kieffer, 1919: 126 (♂, Hungary).

Bezzia spinifera Goetghebuer, 1920: 106 (♂, Belgium).

Bezzia spinosula Clastrier, 1962: 100 (♂, France).

Bezzia flavipalpis – Kieffer 1901: 153 (♀, key).

Bezzia flavicornis – Edwards 1926: 423 (♀, England; = C. flavipalpis , B. spinifera ?). — Goetghebuer 1934: 79 (♀, key, distribution). — Remm 1988: 30 (distribution; = C. flavipalpis , B. flavipluma , B. spinifera , B. spinosula ). — Krzywiński 1995: 138 (♀, ♂, Poland, Bulgaria, Switzerland, France, Denmark).

Bezzia spinifera – Zilahi-Sebess 1940: 106 (♂, Hungary).

Diagnosis

A large orange - brown species. Scutum and scutellum darker than remainder of thorax. Wing pale; wing length 2.20 mm; costal ratio 0.80. Palpus yellowish; palpal ratio 4.50. Fore femur with 2–4 ventral spines; fore and mid femora brownish; fore and mid tibiae brown with distinct yellow subapical band; hind femur and tibia dark brown; tarsi yellow, fith tarsomeres slightly darker; tarsal ratio of fore leg 2.10, of mid leg 2.20, of hind leg 2.00. Abdomen pale brown. Female with 2 large ovoid seminal capsules with short necks, one larger than the other. Male gonocoxite short, straight and thick; gonostylus short, simple, with blunt apex. Parameres fused, slightly expanded in middle, with V-shaped excavation on apical portion. Aedeagus Y-shaped, with long submedian process and blunt apex ( Clastrier 1962; Krzywiński 1995).

Material examined

ISRAEL: 1 ♀, Baniass, 24 Apr. 1982, F. Kaplan leg. ( TAU).

Distribution

Europe ( Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, Ukraine), central Russia, Azerbaijan and Kyrgyzstan ( Remm 1988; Szadziewski et al. 2013). We provide the first record of this species from Israel.