Palpomyia buettikeri Boorman & van Harten, 2002

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 : 15-16

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2017.318
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3847256
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/37097034-F879-FFB5-FE3A-38A8FEDBFE31
treatment provided by	Carolina
scientific name	Palpomyia buettikeri Boorman & van Harten, 2002
status

Treatment

Palpomyia buettikeri Boorman & van Harten, 2002 View in CoL

Palpomyia buettikeri Boorman & van Harten, 2002: 458 View in CoL (♂, figure, description, Saudi Arabia).

Diagnosis

Scutum dark brown. Costa reaching more than ¾ of wing length. Legs uniformly brown; fore femur with 11–12 dark ventral spines; mid femur with 4 longer, more slender spines; hind femur with about 12 very long, slender spines; hind tibia with long dorsal bristles; fifth tarsomeres without ventral setae. Male gonocoxite short, stout, with subapical ventral lobe; gonostylus slender, curved, apex pointed; parameres fused, narrowed basally, distal half cylindrical, expanded; aedeagus triangular, with broad apex ( Boorman & van Harten 2002).

Distribution

Saudi Arabia.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Diptera
Family	Ceratopogonidae
SubFamily	Ceratopogoninae
Tribe	Palpomyiini
Genus	Palpomyia