Platypalpus albocapillatus Fallén, 1815

Zouhair, Laila, Grootaert, Patrick & Kettani, Kawtar, 2024, Twelve new species of Platypalpus Macquart (Diptera: Hybotidae) from Morocco, with additional new records, European Journal of Taxonomy 951 (1), pp. 1-53 : 42-43

Platypalpus albocapillatus Fallén, 1815

Fig. 28

Material examined

MOROCCO – Rif • 1 ♂; Oued El Kannar (Douar Assoul); 28 Feb. 2021; sweep net; L. Zouhair leg.; RBINS • 1 ♂; Amrah ; 15 May 2021; sweep net; F.Z. Sliman leg.; LESCB . – High Atlas • 1 ♂, 1 ♀; Bouzmella ; 24 May 2021; sweep net; K. Menouar leg.; LESCB .

Distribution outside Morocco

Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine ( Szadziewski 1979; Raffone 2002; De Jong et al. 2014).

Remarks

This is the first record of Platypalpus albocapillatus from Morocco as well as the whole of North Africa. The Moroccan specimens correspond perfectly with the morphological description in Chvála (1973). The genitalia agree exactly in all details (shape of cerci and of the left and right lamellae) with that illustrated by Chvála (1973, 1975).

Figures

Fig. 28. Platypalpus albocapillatus Fallén, 1815, male habitus (Oued El Kannar (Douar Assoul), RBINS).