New data on the genus Platypalpus (Diptera: Hybotidae) from the Caucasus with description of seven new species Author Kustov, Semen Author Shamshev, Igor Author Grootaert, Patrick text Zootaxa 2015 3973 3 451 473 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.3973.3.3 5153df29-29fd-4833-adc6-2b27219427c9 1175-5326 245761 6ECCFE93-FE57-453A-BF62-7E2375F197B7 Genus 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: B. longicornis Brunetti, 1913 (by original designation). Howlettia Brunetti, 1913 : 23 . Type species: H. flavipes Brunetti, 1913 (by monotypy). Charadrodromia Melander, 1928 : 292 . Type species: C. microphona Melander, 1928 (by original designation). Tachydromia , authors, not Meigen, 1803 , misidentifications. Diagnosis . Platypalpus includes very small to large species with body size varying from about 1–5 mm and it is recognised by the following combination of characters: eyes separated in both sexes, bare; postpronotal lobe well differentiated; scutum usually distinctly longer than broad; mid leg usually raptorial, mid femur thickened and usually armed with rows of spine-like setae ventrally, mid tibia usually with more or less prominent apical spur; wing with veins A1 and CuA2 present (cell cup present).