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 : 375

Platypalpus sp. 7

Material examined. 5♂, Karamazar, damp meadow, 41°32'N, 69°48'E, 500 m, 18.v.1989, M. Barták; 3♂, Chirchik, along river, 41°32'N, 69°38'E, 19.v.1989, M. Barták ( CULSP).

Remarks. This is a species from the P. minutus complex. Very much like P. nigricolor , but the legs are generally distinctly darker (yellow parts are more brownish-yellow, some specimens with dark fore tibia) and the anepisternum is almost entirely microtrichose. Interestingly, the male genitalia of externally different species P. nigricolor and P. albifacies are identical, and Platypalpus sp. 7. differs from this type only in small details (different shape of tip of hypandrium, shallower curve of the arm of bacilliform (subepandrial) sclerite in lateral view, and broader “opening” on apex of left cercus).