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Phaenobezzia spekei
Authors/Creators
- 1. urn: lsid: zoobank. org: author: 0995 CC 31 - 5 CC 8 - 46 F 3 - BB 72 - A 4 D 76919750 A & Corresponding author: alicja. alwin @ biol. ug. edu. pl
- 2. Email: ryszard. szadziewski @ biol. ug. edu. pl & urn: lsid: zoobank. org: author: 083 FF 55 D-C 4 C 0 - 4 C 7 D-AE 23 - 562619624664
- 3. Email: jacek. szwedo @ biol. ug. edu. pl & urn: lsid: zoobank. org: author: 36 BAE 161 - ECCD- 4 D 89 - B 383 - C 7 CC 84 FF 0 A 89
Description
Phaenobezzia spekei (Macfie, 1939)
Nilobezzia spekei Macfie, 1939: 101 (♀, description, Uganda).
Phaenobezzia spekei – Boorman & van Harten 2002: 459 (♀ and ♂ recorded, diagnosis of ♀, Yemen).
Diagnosis
Scutum dark brown, scutellum paler, with 8 bristles. Fore leg yellow; tibia darker towards tip; tarsomeres 3–5 dark; mid leg similarly colored but tarsus darker; hind leg with yellow femur, dark tibia and tarsus with bristles. Female fifth tarsomeres with 3–4 pairs of sharp, black, spine-like setae with bent tips; 2
large seminal capsules with long necks (Boorman & van Harten 2002). Boorman & van Harten (2002) reported males from Yemen, but they were not diagnosed or illustrated.
Distribution
Uganda, Yemen.
Notes
Published as part of 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, pp. 1-30 in European Journal of Taxonomy 318 on pages 21-22, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.318, http://zenodo.org/record/3827451
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Macfie
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Diptera
- Family
- Ceratopogonidae
- Genus
- Phaenobezzia
- Species
- spekei
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Phaenobezzia spekei (Macfie, 1939) sec. Alwin-Kownacka, Szadziewski & Szwedo, 2017
References
- Macfie J. W. S. 1939. Ceratopogonidae. In: Ruwenzori Expedition 1934 - 35 1: 81 - 102. British Museum of Natural History.
- 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.