Brachypogon (Brachypogon) vitiosus (Winnertz)

Dominiak, Patrycja, Alwin, Alicja & Giłka, Wojciech, 2014, New records of predaceous midges from the Middle East, with the description of two new species (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), Zootaxa 3753 (2), pp. 133-145 : 134

Brachypogon (Brachypogon) vitiosus (Winnertz)

Ceratopogon vitiosus Winnertz, 1852: 49 ( Germany) .

Anakempia minima Kieffer, 1924: 402 ( France) .

Trishelea nigra Mayer, 1934: 291 ( Poland) .

Helea (Brachypogon) vitiosus: Goetghebuer 1934: 52 ( Germany, Austria).

Helea (Brachypogon) vitiosa: Remm 1966: 65 ( Lithuania) .

Ceratopogon (Brachypogon) vitiosus: Remm 1967: 29 ( Georgia) ; Remm 1971: 207 (Russia—Primorsky Krai); Remm 1974: 57 (syn. = Anakempia minima , = Trishelea nigra , Lithuania, Estonia, Georgia, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Russia— Leningrad Oblast, Khabarovsk Krai, Primorsky Krai); Remm 1979: 46 ( Estonia).

Brachypogon vitiosus: Havelka 1976: 72 ( Germany) ; Glukhova 1979: 180 (Russia—Primorsky Krai); Havelka 1979: 59 ( Spain); Szadziewski & Havelka 1984: 350 (neotype, Spain, France, Germany, Poland, Algeria, Afghanistan, Japan); Delécolle & Rieb 1990: 184 ( France); Delécolle et al. 1991: 256 ( France); Navai 1997: 184 ( Afghanistan); Hagan et al. 2000: 470 ( Norway); Brodskaya 2001: 186 (Russia—Pskov Oblast); Bernotienė 2002: 289 ( Lithuania); Yu et al. 2005: 1406 ( China); Dominiak 2009: 200 ( Poland).

Brachypogon (Brachypogon) vitiosus: Wirth & Grogan 1988: 29 (catalogue); Borkent & Wirth 1997: 93 (catalogue); Borkent 2013: 115 (catalogue).

Material examined. ISRAEL, ‘Enot Zuqim, 19.V.1998, 1 male, leg. O. Manheim ( TAU).

Remarks. Brachypogon vitiosus is a widely distributed Palaearctic species reported from Spain, France, Norway, Germany, Austria, Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, Russia, Georgia, Armenia, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Japan and Algeria. This species occurs in primarily cooler regions ( Szadziewski & Havelka 1984), and currently we provide the first record from the Middle East. This is the fifth species of the subgenus Brachypogon reported from this region. The other four species are: B. afifi Boorman & Harten, 2002 ( Yemen) , B. arabicus Szadziewski, Gwizdalska-Kentzer & Giłka, 2011 ( United Arab Emirates), B. obesus Szadziewski, Gwizdalska-Kentzer & Giłka, 2011 ( United Arab Emirates) and B. yarimii Boorman & Harten, 2002 ( Oman, Yemen). We consider that some literature data on B. vitiosus should be treated as doubtful. This species was mentioned by Remm (1974, 1988) from the British Isles, and by Glukhova (1979) and Remm (1988) from Kazakhstan and East Siberia, but without any supporting locality information. Brachypogon vitiosus was also included in the checklist of the biting midges of Slovakia ( Országh & Chalupský 1987), but we have not been able to locate any faunistic records from that country.