Nilobezzia nigritibialis ( Ingram & Macfie, 1921 )

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 : 25

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2017.318
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3847248
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/37097034-F86F-FFA2-FE2A-3F63FC80FC49
treatment provided by	Carolina
scientific name	Nilobezzia nigritibialis ( Ingram & Macfie, 1921 )
status

Treatment

Nilobezzia nigritibialis ( Ingram & Macfie, 1921) View in CoL

Dicrobezzia nigritibialis Ingram & Macfie, 1921: 371 View in CoL (♂, ♀, descriptions, figures, Ghana).

Nilobezzia nigritibialis View in CoL – Clastrier & Wirth 1961: 212 (combination). — Boorman & Harten 2002: 455 (♀, description, Oman, Yemen).

Diagnosis

Very dark brown midges. Legs with femora and tibiae dark brown; tarsomeres 1–4 pale brown, tarsomeres 5 dark brown; female claws large, equal, with basal outer teeth; female tarsomeres 5 armed with 8–10 black slender batonnets. Male with moderately well developed gonocoxite, broad basally, gonostylus conical and reduced; aedeagus with high basal arch and broad, cap-like apex ( Boorman & Harten 2002). Female with 2 subspherical, unequal seminal capsules.

Distribution

Ghana, Oman, Yemen ( Boorman & Harten 2002).