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Bezzia (Homobezzia) kuhetiensis Remm 1967

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  • 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
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Description

Bezzia (Homobezzia) kuhetiensis Remm, 1967

Bezzia kuhetiensis Remm, 1967: 33 (♂, ♀, Azerbaijan).

Bezzia kuhetiensis – Turgut & Kilic 2015: 14 (♀, record, Turkey).

Diagnosis

Thorax brown, scutellum paler. Head brown. Palpus yellow. Flagellomeres 1–8 yellow, 9–13 brown on distal portions. Femora pale yellow or white, with dark brown band on apex; fore femur with small smoky area near apex, with 2 ventral spines; tibiae white, with dark brown bands on apical and basal portions; fore tibia with another dark brown band on middle portion; tarsomeres white, with darker apices. Wing pale. Abdomen pale brown. Female with 2 round seminal capsules with long, thick necks. Male genitalia with long tergite IX; gonocoxite stout, moderately short, slender, curved and gonostylus with sharply pointed apex; parameres fused, base W-shaped, with long, straight, slender distal process; aedeagus triangular, slender, with low basal arch and barely visible rounded apex (Remm 1967).

Distribution

Azerbaijan, Ukraine (Remm 1988). In the Middle East recorded from Turkey (Turgut & Kilic 2015).

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 page 7, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.318, http://zenodo.org/record/3827451

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References

  • Remm H. 1967. On the fauna of Ceratopogonidae (Diptera) in the Caucasus. Tartu Riikliku Ulikooli Toimetised 194: 3 - 37.
  • Turgut F. & Kilic A. Y. 2015. The Ceratopogonidae (Insecta: Diptera) fauna of the Central Black Sea Region in Turkey. Turkish Journal of Zoology 39 (6): 1071 - 1089. https: // doi. org /: 10.3906 / zoo- 1410 - 33
  • Remm H. 1988. Family Ceratopogonidae. In: Soos A. & Papp L. (eds) Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera 3: 11 - 110. Akademiai Kiado, Budapest.