Platypalpus baldensis (Strobl)

Kustov, Semen, Shamshev, Igor & Grootaert, Patrick, 2015, New data on the genus Platypalpus (Diptera: Hybotidae) from the Caucasus with description of seven new species, Zootaxa 3973 (3), pp. 451-473 : 454

Platypalpus baldensis (Strobl)

Tachydromia baldensis Strobl, 1899: 81 .

Material examined. RUSSIA: Krasnodarskiy Territory: Goryachy Klyuch district, env. Oktyabrskiy, 25.iv.2010, S. Kustov (4 ♀, KSU); Starominskiy district, env. Starominskaya, bank of river Sosika, 29.iv.2010, S. Kustov (1 ♂, KSU); Primorsko-Ahtarskiy district, env. Yasenskaya, 29.iv.2010, S. Kustov (1 ♂, 1 ♀, KSU); same locality, 14.iv.2013, S. Kustov (4 ♂, 1 ♀, KSU); Severskiy district, env. Ubinskaya, 7.iv.2013, S. Kustov (1 ♂, KSU); Krasnodar, 15.iv.2013, S. Kustov (1 ♂, 1 ♀, KSU); Krimskiy district, env. Krimsk, 10.v.2013, S. Kustov (2 ♀, KSU); Anapskiy District, Utrish Nature Reserve, tract Dolgaya Niva, 17.iv.2014, S. Kustov (2 ♂, 1 ♀, KSU); same locality, 28.iv.2014, S. Kustov (1 ♂, 1 ♀, KSU); same locality, env. Rayevskaya, steppe, 17.iv.2014, S. Kustov (10 ♂, 4 ♀, KSU); same locality, 28.iv.2014, S. Kustov (1 ♀, KSU); same locality, cleft Mokraya, 18.iv.2014, S. Kustov (1 ♂, 2 ♀, KSU); same locality, Sukhoy liman, 17–18.iv.2014, S. Kustov (3 ♂, 2 ♀, KSU).

Distribution. Austria, France, Italy, Russia (Krasnodarskiy Territory), Switzerland.

Remarks. The species is recorded from the Caucasus for the first time. This is a common species of the plain territory and submontane forest of the North-West Caucasus and is active in April-May.