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
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4079.5.3
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1175-5326
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Serromyia diabolica
Dominiak & Mathieu, 2015
Serromyia diabolica
Dominiak & Mathieu, 2015
: 437
(male, female,
Lebanon
).
Diagnosis.
Body uniformly blackish brown. Males without short and stout ventral spines on fore and mid femora, only bristle like spines present (present examination); parameres sharply pointed and subapically bent. Females have unarmed fore and mid femora and tibiae, and 2 small seminal capsules, claw of hind leg shorter (0.9) than fifth tarsomere.
Material
examined.
LEBANON
,
Anti-Lebanon Mts.
,
Maaraboun village
near
Baalbek
,
5.V.2012
, net,
25 males
,
5 females
, leg.
P. Dominiak
.
ISRAEL
.
Bitan Aharon
,
15.02.1975
,
1 male
, leg.
M. Kaplan
;
Natanya
,
15.02.1975
,
1 male
,
F. Kaplan
;
Herzliya
,
10.03.1975
,
1 male
, leg.
A
. Freidberg
;
Tel-Aviv
,
10.03.1975
,
2 male
, leg.
F. Kaplan.
Distribution
.
Lebanon
. From
Israel
reported for the first time.