Homohelea Kieffer, 1917

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

Genus Homohelea Kieffer, 1917

Type species

Palpomyia abjuncta Kieffer, 1913 ; by original designation.

Diagnosis

Large, grayish, stout-bodied midges. Legs stout; femora with 4–8 stout, black ventral spines; fifth tarsomeres of female with 2 pairs of batonnets; female claws long, equal, curved, on fore leg with basal inner teeth. Wings with 2 radial cells and long costa that extends to near wing tip. Male genitalia short, stout; gonostylus stout, with slender hooked tip; aedeagus with high basal arch and stout tip; parameres fused except basally (de Meillon & Wirth 1991). Female abdomen without ventral setal tufts on sternite VIII; 2 seminal capsules.