Nilobezzia nigritibialis (Ingram & Macfie, 1921)

Dicrobezzia nigritibialis Ingram & Macfie, 1921: 371 (♂, ♀, descriptions, figures, Ghana).

Nilobezzia nigritibialis – Clastrier & Wirth 1961: 212 (combination). — Boorman & Harten 2002: 455 (♀, description, Oman, Yemen).

Diagnosis

Very dark brown midges. Legs with femora and tibiae dark brown; tarsomeres 1–4 pale brown, tarsomeres 5 dark brown; female claws large, equal, with basal outer teeth; female tarsomeres 5 armed with 8–10 black slender batonnets. Male with moderately well developed gonocoxite, broad basally, gonostylus conical and reduced; aedeagus with high basal arch and broad, cap-like apex (Boorman & Harten 2002). Female with 2 subspherical, unequal seminal capsules.

Distribution

Ghana, Oman, Yemen (Boorman & Harten 2002).