Biting midges of the tribe Ceratopogonini (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from the Middle East, with keys and descriptions of new species Author Alwin-Kownacka, Alicja Author Szadziewski, Ryszard Author Szwedo, Jacek text Zootaxa 2016 2016-02-16 4079 5 551 572 journal article 31500 10.11646/zootaxa.4079.5.3 7f223778-dd55-45a1-9878-88ae789e57ac 1175-5326 1050879 CC01F586-597F-4C42-9F87-DBD81CF5AAC2 Genus Serromyia Meigen, 1818 Type species. Ceratopogon femoratus Meigen, 1818 ; by original designation. Diagnosis. Hind femur greatly swollen and armed ventrally in both sexes; fore and mid legs slender and usually unarmed; hind tibia slender; claws of fore and mid legs small and equal; hind legs in female usually with single claw armed with distinct basal tooth; sometimes two equal claws are present as on other legs. Wing usually without color patterns, with two radial cells. One or two seminal capsules (de Meillon & Wirth 1991 ). Hind basitarsus with complete single row of palisade setae. Paratergite slender. Flagellum without sensilla coecolonica ringed with microtrichia. The genus including 35 extant species is reported from the Holarctic, Afrotropical, Oriental and Australian Regions ( Szadziewski 2008 , Borkent 2015 ).