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Phaenobezzia Haeselbarth 1965

  • 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

Genus Phaenobezzia Haeselbarth, 1965

Type species

Probezzia pistiae Ingram & Macfie, 1921; by original designation.

Diagnosis

Large, slender, nearly bare midges. Legs slender; femora unarmed; female fifth tarsomeres with long, stout, sharp setae with bent tips. Female claws equal, evenly curved or bent at base, each with small basal inner tooth. Wing with 1 radial cell; costa extending 0.80–0.90 of wing length. Gonostylus very small, rarely absent (de Meillon & Wirth 1991).

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

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References

  • 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. 1991. The genera and subgenera (excluding Culicoides) of the Afrotropical biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Annals of the Natal Museum 32: 27 - 147.