A review of scuttle fly genera of Israel (Diptera: Phoridae), with new records and an identification key
Author
Mostovski, Mike B.
text
Zootaxa
2016
4137
1
61
72
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4137.1.4
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1175-5326
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Genus
Triphleba
Rondani, 1856
So far, only two ‘endemic’ species of this speciose genus have been recorded in
Israel
, i.e.
T. circumflexa
Schmitz, 1932
and
T. extrema
Schmitz, 1932
(
Disney & Nussbaum, 1990
;
Lengyel, 2011a
). The former was described from female, whereas the latter from male only (
Schmitz, 1932
).
T. extrema
is quite distinct in having greatly enlarged epandrial lobes and occurs on both Judean hills and the coastal plain.