Three new species of European Platypalpus (Diptera, Hybotidae) Author Bartak, Miroslav Author Kubik, Stepan text ZooKeys 2015 470 145 155 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.470.8967 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.470.8967 1313-2970-470-145 13D0CF7363134F96AC104491F7B9642C 13D0CF7363134F96AC104491F7B9642C Taxon classification Animalia Diptera Hybotidae Platypalpus Macquart Coryneta Meigen, 1800: 27. Type-species: Musca cursitans Fabricius, 1775, by subsequent designation of Engel (1939: 43). Suppressed by I.C.Z.N. 1963: 339 (Opinion 678). Platypalpus Macquart, 1827: 92. Type-species: Musca cursitans Fabricius, 1775, by subsequent designation of Westwood (1840: 132). Phoroxypha Rondani, 1856: 146. Type-species: Tachydromia longicornis Meigen, 1822, by original designation. Cleptodromia Corti, 1907: 101 (as subgenus of Tachydromia ). Type-species: Tachydromia (Cleptodromia) longimana Corti, 1907 by monotypy. Brevios Brunetti, 1913: 22. Type-species: Brevios longicornis Brunetti, 1913 by original designation. Howlettia Brunetti, 1913: 23. Type-species: Howlettia flavipes Brunetti, 1913 by monotypy. Tachydromia , authors, not Meigen, 1803, misidentifications. Charadrodromia Melander, 1928. Type species: Charadrodromia microphona Melander, 1928, by original designation. Diagnosis. Very small to medium large species with body size varying from about 1.0 to 6.0 mm, recognised by the following combination of characters: eyes separated in both sexes, without ommatrichia; postpronotal lobe well differentiated; scutum usually distinctly longer than broad; mid leg raptorial (mid femur usually thickened and armed with two rows of spine-like setae ventrally, mid tibia usually with more or less prominent ventroapical spur); wing with cell cup present.