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).