Phaenobezzia spekei ( Macfie, 1939 )

Alwin-Kownacka, Alicja, Szadziewski, Ryszard & Szwedo, Jacek, 2017, Predatory midges of the tribes Palpomyiini and Sphaeromiini (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from the Middle East, with keys and descriptions of new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 318, pp. 1-30 : 21-22

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2017.318
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3847296
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/37097034-F863-FFAF-FD90-3887FE06FE54
treatment provided by	Carolina
scientific name	Phaenobezzia spekei ( Macfie, 1939 )
status

Treatment

Phaenobezzia spekei ( Macfie, 1939) View in CoL

Nilobezzia spekei Macfie, 1939: 101 View in CoL (♀, description, Uganda).

Phaenobezzia spekei View in CoL – Boorman & van Harten 2002: 459 (♀ and ♂ recorded, diagnosis of ♀, Yemen).

Diagnosis

Scutum dark brown, scutellum paler, with 8 bristles. Fore leg yellow; tibia darker towards tip; tarsomeres 3–5 dark; mid leg similarly colored but tarsus darker; hind leg with yellow femur, dark tibia and tarsus with bristles. Female fifth tarsomeres with 3–4 pairs of sharp, black, spine-like setae with bent tips; 2

large seminal capsules with long necks ( Boorman & van Harten 2002). Boorman & van Harten (2002) reported males from Yemen, but they were not diagnosed or illustrated.

Distribution

Uganda, Yemen.