Platypalpus

Barták, Miroslav & Shamshev, Igor, 2015, Species of Platypalpus Macquart (Diptera: Hybotidae) from Uzbekistan, with descriptions of thirteen new species, Zootaxa 3926 (3), pp. 351-376 : 374

Platypalpus sp. 1

Material examined. 1♀: Amankutan, alpine meadow, 39°17'N, 66°54'E, 1600 m, 23.v.1989, M. Barták ( CULSP).

Remarks. Similar to P. confiformis Chvála , which is known from northern Fennoscandia and the mountains of Central Europe ( Chvála 1989). This unnamed species differs by the following features: postpedicel at least 3X longer than wide, stylus subequal in length; female sternite 8 swollen, much longer than corresponding tergite; postpronotum entirely microtrichose; katepisternum broadly microtrichose on anterior part, lustrous part V-shaped. This undescribed species cannot be described without associated males.