Aphaniosoma claridgei Ebejer, 1998

Ebejer, Martin J., 2023, The genus Aphaniosoma Becker, 1903 (Diptera: Chyromyidae) in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, with descriptions of new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 872, pp. 1-161 : 37

Aphaniosoma claridgei Ebejer, 1998

Remarks

A species widespread in coastal localities around the Mediterranean that is difficult to identify without examination of the male hypopygium as there are several species almost identical to it in the same geographical area that are often collected with it. Some comparative details are given under A. approximatum above. A photograph of the habitus is given in Ebejer (2021a).

Distribution

Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy (including Sardinia and Sicily), Malta, Morocco, Spain (Balearic Islands), Tunisia, Turkey ( Ebejer 1995, 1998, 2005, 2016, 2021a; Ebejer & Deeming 1997).