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 Platypalpus baldensis (Strobl) Tachydromia baldensis Strobl, 1899 : 81 . Material examined . RUSSIA : Krasnodarskiy Territory : Goryachy Klyuch district, env. Oktyabrskiy, 25.iv.2010 , S. Kustov (4 ♀, KSU); Starominskiy district, env. Starominskaya, bank of river Sosika, 29.iv.2010 , S. Kustov ( 1 ♂ , KSU); Primorsko-Ahtarskiy district, env. Yasenskaya, 29.iv.2010 , S. Kustov ( 1 ♂ , 1 ♀, KSU); same locality, 14.iv.2013 , S. Kustov ( 4 ♂ , 1 ♀, KSU); Severskiy district, env. Ubinskaya, 7.iv.2013 , S. Kustov ( 1 ♂ , KSU); Krasnodar, 15.iv.2013 , S. Kustov ( 1 ♂ , 1 ♀, KSU); Krimskiy district, env. Krimsk, 10.v.2013 , S. Kustov (2 ♀, KSU); Anapskiy District, Utrish Nature Reserve, tract Dolgaya Niva, 17.iv.2014 , S. Kustov ( 2 ♂ , 1 ♀, KSU); same locality, 28.iv.2014 , S. Kustov ( 1 ♂ , 1 ♀, KSU); same locality, env. Rayevskaya, steppe, 17.iv.2014 , S. Kustov ( 10 ♂ , 4 ♀, KSU); same locality, 28.iv.2014 , S. Kustov (1 ♀, KSU); same locality, cleft Mokraya, 18.iv.2014 , S. Kustov ( 1 ♂ , 2 ♀, KSU); same locality, Sukhoy liman, 17–18.iv.2014 , S. Kustov ( 3 ♂ , 2 ♀, KSU). Distribution. Austria , France , Italy , Russia (Krasnodarskiy Territory), Switzerland . Remarks . The species is recorded from the Caucasus for the first time. This is a common species of the plain territory and submontane forest of the North-West Caucasus and is active in April-May.