Bezzia (Pygobezzia) fuliginata Clastrier, 1962

Bezzia fuliginata Clastrier, 1962: 115 (♂, Serbia).

Bezzia fulginata – Remm 1967: 32 (Azerbaijan, Georgia); 1973: 351 (Hungary). — Krzywiński 1995: 182 (♂, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Georgia, Poland, Serbia).

Diagnosis

Very similar to B. albicornis, but differs from that species in having a scutellum with 4 large setae; parameres swollen on proximal portion, without lateral ribs, with 2 distinct apical lobes; apex of median process of aedeagus strongly bent and gonocoxite with 3 ventral bristles.

Material examined

ISRAEL: 1 ♂, Enot Zukim, 7 Dec. 1992, A. Freidberg leg. (TAU); 1 ♀, Park Rosh ha’Ayin, 16 Apr. 1993, A. Freidberg and F. Kaplan leg. (TAU); 1 ♂, En Mor, 30 Jun. 1994, A. Freidberg leg. (TAU); 1 ♀, Enot Samar, 21 Jun. 1998, A. Freidberg leg. (TAU).

LEBANON: 1 ♂, Tyre, 33º15.535′ N, 35 º12.726′ E, beach, net, 6 May 2012, P. Dominiak leg. (CEIUG).

Distribution

Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Europe (France, Hungary, Poland, Serbia, Spain, Ukraine – Crimea), Georgia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan (Remm 1988; Krzywiński 1995; Szadziewski et al. 2013). We provide the first records from the Middle East, from Israel and Lebanon.