Palpomyia serripes ( Meigen, 1818 )

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 : 16-17

Palpomyia serripes ( Meigen, 1818)

Ceratopogon serripes Meigen, 1818: 82 (♀, Germany).

Ceratopogon flavitarsis Meigen, 1838: 20 (♀, locality unknown).

Ceratopogon transfuga Staeger, 1839: 598 (♀, Denmark).

Ceratopogon tarsatus Zetterstedt, 1855: 4874 (♀, Sweden).

Palpomyia ruficeps Kieffer, 1918: 59 (♀, Tunisia).

Palpomyia serripes – Kieffer 1906: 63 (combination). — Goetghebuer 1920: 20 (♂, ♀, Belgium); 1934: 72 (♂, ♀; = P. ruficeps ). — Edwards 1926: 422 (♂, ♀; = C. transfuga , P. tarsatus ). — Szadziewski 1986: 87 (♀, redescription, distribution, Sweden). — Krzywiński 1995: 55 (♂, ♀, Poland, Sweden). — Turgut & Kilic 2015: 14 (♀, Turkey).

Diagnosis

Body blackish-brown. Palpus and flagellum brown. Legs blackish-brown; fore femur and tarsomeres 1–2 paler, darker distally; tarsomeres 3–5 brown. All femora armed with spines; fore femur with 3–6, mid femur with 0–3 and hind femur with 0–3 spines. Female with 2 round seminal capsules with distinct necks. Parameres in male genitalia broad and separated on distal half.

Distribution

Armenia, Europe ( Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland), Tunisia, Georgia and Japan. In the Middle East known from Turkey ( Szadziewski et al. 2013; Turgut & Kilic 2015).