Platypalpus

Barták, Miroslav & Shamshev, Igor, 2015, Species of Platypalpus Macquart (Diptera: Hybotidae) from Uzbekistan, with descriptions of thirteen new species, Zootaxa 3926 (3), pp. 351-376 : 374

Platypalpus sp. 3

Material examined. 1♀: Karamazar, damp meadow, 41°32'N, 69°48'E, 500 m, 18.v.1989, M. Barták ( CULSP).

Remarks. This undescribed species cannot be described based on a single female specimen, in spite of the following combination of characters which are unknown for any other Palaearctic species: two vertical setae present; both basal antennal segments reddish-yellow, postpedicel black and 2.4X longer than broad, stylus 1.8X longer than postpedicel; lustrous oval spot on central part of mesoscutum (microtrichose parts: anterior margin of mesoscutum, broad lateral margins and narrow stripe in front of scutellum); katepisternum with very small lustrous spot in middle; acrostichals biserial; legs yellow, tarsi (especially hind tarsi) indistinctly brownish annulated, last tarsomere yellow; mid tibial spur rather long, pale and blunt tipped; mid femur with long pale posteroventrals; abdomen lustrous with microtrichose bands in anterior part of tergites 1–2, last two abdominal segments microtrichose.