Ceratopogon azari Dominiak, Alwin & Giłka, 2014

Ceratopogon azari Dominiak, Alwin & Giłka, 2014: 138 (male, Lebanon).

Diagnosis. Males differ from all other species of the genus by the following combination of characters: apicolateral processes of tergite IX elongate, each bearing two setae, parameres fused on proximal 1/3, aedeagus with seed-like medial prongs, lateral prongs lightly sclerotized with setose apices.

Material examined. LEBANON, Anti-Lebanon Mts., Maaraboun village near Baalbek (in the locality named Sheaibe), N 33˚ 55.376 E 36˚15.490, altitude 1781 m, stream and helocrene, 3 males, 3 females, 5.V.2012, net, leg. P. Dominiak.

Distribution. A montane species living in Anti-Lebanon Mountains.

Discussion. Ceratopogon including 41 extant species (Borkent & Grogan 1995) is a relictual Boreal genus which has Holarctic distribution (Szadziewski 2008). The species C. azari extends the southernmost distribution for this genus in the Western Palaearctic. This montane species was collected at altitude 1781 m a.s.l.