Homohelea telmatoscopa ( Ingram & Macfie, 1921 )

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 : 22-23

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2017.318
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3847254
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scientific name	Homohelea telmatoscopa ( Ingram & Macfie, 1921 )
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Homohelea telmatoscopa ( Ingram & Macfie, 1921) View in CoL

Schizodactylus telmatoscopus Ingram & Macfie, 1921: 353 (♂, ♀, description, figures, Ghana).

Homohelea telmatoscopa View in CoL – de Meillon & Wirth 1981: 542 (key to sub-Saharan species of Homohelea View in CoL ); Boorman & van Harten 2002: 455 (♀, Yemen).

Diagnosis

Thorax uniformly dark brown; small prothoracic lobes present. Flagellum dark brown. Palpus very small; third segment not swollen, sensory pit rudimentary. Femora with 10–12 ventral spines; femora and tibiae dark brown, tarsomeres 1–4 paler; tarsomeres 5 dark brown, with 2 pairs of dark batonnets; female claws long and equal, fore claws with a large basal inner tooth. Female with 2 ovoid seminal capsules with short necks ( Ingram & Macfie 1921).

Distribution

Ghana, Yemen.

References

Boorman J. & van Harten A. 2002. Some Ceratopogonidae (Insecta: Diptera) from the Arabian Peninsula, with particular reference to the Republic of Yemen. Fauna of Arabia 19: 427 - 462.

Ingram A. & Macfie J. W. S. 1921. West African Ceratopogonidae. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology 15: 313 - 377.

Meillon B. de & Wirth W. W. 1981. Subsaharan Ceratopogonidae (Diptera). VI. New species and records of South African biting midges collected by A. L. Dyce. Annals of the Natal Museum 24: 525 - 561.