Homohelea telmatoscopa ( Ingram & Macfie, 1921 )

Alwin-Kownacka, Alicja, Szadziewski, Ryszard & Szwedo, Jacek, 2017, Predatory midges of the tribes Palpomyiini and Sphaeromiini (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from the Middle East, with keys and descriptions of new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 318, pp. 1-30 : 22-23

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2017.318
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:541EA4D0-3883-4190-8E10-FF7CAC1BB035
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3847254
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/37097034-F862-FFAC-FE3A-3804FEF7FEB9
treatment provided by	Carolina
scientific name	Homohelea telmatoscopa ( Ingram & Macfie, 1921 )
status

Treatment

Homohelea telmatoscopa ( Ingram & Macfie, 1921) View in CoL

Schizodactylus telmatoscopus Ingram & Macfie, 1921: 353 (♂, ♀, description, figures, Ghana).

Homohelea telmatoscopa View in CoL – de Meillon & Wirth 1981: 542 (key to sub-Saharan species of Homohelea View in CoL ); Boorman & van Harten 2002: 455 (♀, Yemen).

Diagnosis

Thorax uniformly dark brown; small prothoracic lobes present. Flagellum dark brown. Palpus very small; third segment not swollen, sensory pit rudimentary. Femora with 10–12 ventral spines; femora and tibiae dark brown, tarsomeres 1–4 paler; tarsomeres 5 dark brown, with 2 pairs of dark batonnets; female claws long and equal, fore claws with a large basal inner tooth. Female with 2 ovoid seminal capsules with short necks ( Ingram & Macfie 1921).

Distribution

Ghana, Yemen.