Bezzia (Bezzia) flavicornis (Staeger, 1839)

Ceratopogon flavicornis Staeger, 1839: 599 (♂, ♀, Denmark).

Ceratopogon flavipalpis Winnertz, 1852: 80 (♀, Germany).

Bezzia flavipluma Kieffer, 1919: 126 (♂, Hungary).

Bezzia spinifera Goetghebuer, 1920: 106 (♂, Belgium).

Bezzia spinosula Clastrier, 1962: 100 (♂, France).

Bezzia flavipalpis – Kieffer 1901: 153 (♀, key).

Bezzia flavicornis – Edwards 1926: 423 (♀, England; = C. flavipalpis, B. spinifera ?). — Goetghebuer 1934: 79 (♀, key, distribution). — Remm 1988: 30 (distribution; = C. flavipalpis, B. flavipluma, B. spinifera, B. spinosula). — Krzywiński 1995: 138 (♀, ♂, Poland, Bulgaria, Switzerland, France, Denmark).

Bezzia spinifera – Zilahi-Sebess 1940: 106 (♂, Hungary).

Diagnosis

A large orange - brown species. Scutum and scutellum darker than remainder of thorax. Wing pale; wing length 2.20 mm; costal ratio 0.80. Palpus yellowish; palpal ratio 4.50. Fore femur with 2–4 ventral spines; fore and mid femora brownish; fore and mid tibiae brown with distinct yellow subapical band; hind femur and tibia dark brown; tarsi yellow, fith tarsomeres slightly darker; tarsal ratio of fore leg 2.10, of mid leg 2.20, of hind leg 2.00. Abdomen pale brown. Female with 2 large ovoid seminal capsules with short necks, one larger than the other. Male gonocoxite short, straight and thick; gonostylus short, simple, with blunt apex. Parameres fused, slightly expanded in middle, with V-shaped excavation on apical portion. Aedeagus Y-shaped, with long submedian process and blunt apex (Clastrier 1962; Krzywiński 1995).

Material examined

ISRAEL: 1 ♀, Baniass, 24 Apr. 1982, F. Kaplan leg. (TAU).

Distribution

Europe (Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, Ukraine), central Russia, Azerbaijan and Kyrgyzstan (Remm 1988; Szadziewski et al. 2013). We provide the first record of this species from Israel.