Bezzia Kieffer 1899
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
Subgenus Bezzia Kieffer, 1899
Diagnosis
Fore femur with or without ventral spines. Male flagellum with flagellomere 10 elongate, longer than distal segments 11–13. Male flagellar plume well developed. Male aedeagus without spicules on ventral membrane; gonostylus elongate, simple (Krzywiński 1995).
Key to males of Bezzia (Bezzia) of the Middle East
1. Fore femur with l or more ventral spines..........................................................................................2
– Fore femur without ventral spines.....................................................................................................3
2. Hind femur and tibia uniformly brown; gonostylus with blunt apex ............................................... .............................................................................................................. B. flavicornis (Staeger, 1839)
– Hind femur and tibia yellow, with brown subapical and subbasal bands; gonostylus with sharply pointed apex ........................................................................ B. naseri Boorman & van Harten, 2002
3. Sternite IX of male genitalia very long; gonostylus with sharply pointed apex ................................ ...................................................................................... B. libanensis Alwin & Szadziewski sp. nov.
– Sternite IX of male genitalia short; gonostylus with blunt apex ..................................................... ........................................................................................... B. mellori Boorman & van Harten, 2002
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Kieffer
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Diptera
- Family
- Ceratopogonidae
- Genus
- Bezzia
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Bezzia Kieffer, 1899 sec. Alwin-Kownacka, Szadziewski & Szwedo, 2017
References
- Krzywinski J. 1995. Rewizja Systematyczna Drapieznych Kuczmanow Plemienia Palpomyiini Polski (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). PhD Thesis (manuscript). Uniwersytet Gdanski, Gdansk, Poland.
- Staeger R. C. 1839. Systematisk fortegnelse over de i Danmark hidtil fundne Diptera. Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift 2: 549 - 600.
- 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.