Bezzia (Pygobezzia) fuliginata Clastrier, 1962

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 : 11

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2017.318
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3847312
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/37097034-F87D-FFB0-FDDA-3AB1FB35F821
treatment provided by	Carolina
scientific name	Bezzia (Pygobezzia) fuliginata Clastrier, 1962
status

Treatment

Bezzia (Pygobezzia) fuliginata Clastrier, 1962 View in CoL

Bezzia fuliginata Clastrier, 1962: 115 View in CoL (♂, 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.