Palpomyia tibialis ( Meigen, 1818 )

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 : 21

Palpomyia tibialis ( Meigen, 1818)

Ceratopogon tibialis Meigen, 1818: 82 (♀, Europe).

Palpomyia atripectus Kieffer, 1919: 101 (♀, Hungary, Serbia).

Palpomyia laticollis Goetghebuer, 1922: 55 (♂, Belgium).

Palpomyia nipponica Tokunaga, 1939: 297 (♂, ♀, Japan).

Palpomyia tibialis – Kieffer 1901: 156 (combination, in key).

Diagnosis

Dark brown species. Fore and mid legs pale brown to yellow; coxae brown; hind femur dark brown on distal ¼ (♀) or ½ (♂), hind tibia dark. Fore femur with 6–9, mid femur with 0–2 and hind femur with 1–3 ventral spines; fifth tarsomere of hind leg with 2 rows of large setae. Male gonocoxite long, basally expanded, with small ventral bulge on distal portion covered with small setae; gonostylus triangular, with short, stout setae on ventral surface; parameres fused only on extreme basal portion, apices elongate, slender, pointed, recurved. Female with 2 ovoid seminal capsules with distinct necks.

Distribution

North America ( Grogan & Wirth 1979; Borkent & Grogan 2009), Azerbaijan, N China, Europe ( Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, N and NW Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Sweden, Ukraine and former Yugoslavia), Georgia, Japan and Tajikistan. From the Middle East known from Turkey ( Remm 1988; Szadziewski et al. 2013; Turgut & Kilic 2015).