Palpomyia flavipes ( Meigen, 1804 )

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 : 17

Palpomyia flavipes ( Meigen, 1804)

Ceratopogon flavipes Meigen, 1804: 28 (♂, locality not given).

Ceratopogon hortulanus Meigen, 1818: 81 (♀, Europe).

Ceratopogon flavipes – Walker 1856: 228 (♀, Great Britain; = C. hortulanus ).

Palpomyia flavipes – Kieffer 1901: 157 (♂, combination). — Krzywiński 1995: 75 (♂, ♀, distribution).

Diagnosis

Body with flattened setae with thin, whip-like tips; thorax uniformly dark. Legs yellow; femora as well as fore and mid tibiae with apical brown bands; hind tibia brown; fore femur with 5–8 spines. Male genitalia with relatively short gonocoxite; gonostylus almost straight, as long as gonocoxite; parameres fused, slender, expanded apically; aedeagus triangular with low basal arch and evenly rounded apex. Females with 2 large oval seminal capsules with short necks.

Material examined

ISRAEL: 1 ♀, Dan, 21 Jul. 1983, I. Nussbaum leg. ( TAU); 1 ♀, same collection data except 28 Sep. 1983 ( TAU); 1 ♀, Park Hayarden, 7 May 1987, I. Yarom leg. ( TAU); 2 ♀♀, same collection data except 7 May 1987, F. Kaplan leg. ( TAU); 1 ♀, same collection data except 14 Apr. 1999, A. Freidberg leg. ( TAU); 1 ♂, Lifta, 10 May 1987, I. Nussbaum leg. ( TAU).

Distribution

Armenia, Europe ( Andorra, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, N and NW Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine), Georgia, Kazakhstan and Turkey ( Remm 1988; Szadziewski et al. 2013; Turgut & Kilic 2015). The above records are the first from Israel.