Aphaniosoma nigricauda Ebejer, 1998

Ebejer, Martin J., 2023, The genus Aphaniosoma Becker, 1903 (Diptera: Chyromyidae) in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, with descriptions of new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 872, pp. 1-161 : 116

Aphaniosoma nigricauda Ebejer, 1998

Remarks

An almost completely dark brown to black species with greyish microtomentum, and on external characters alone it is indistinguishable from A. creperum ( Fig. 16 ). For discussion of similar species, see note above under A. creperum and note under A. nigricauda below.

Distribution

Algeria, Cyprus, Morocco, Tunisia ( Ebejer 1998, 2016, 2021a; Baba Aissa et al. 2016).

Figures

Fig. 16. Aphaniosoma creperum Collin, 1949. A–B. ♂, specimen from Cairo, Egypt (MJE). A. Habitus, lateral view. B. Hypopygium in situ, lateral view. C. ♂, specimen from Israel, pregenital sternites, ventral view. Abbreviations: See Material and methods.