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Issue: Vol. 5443 No. 2: 22 Apr. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-04-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5443.2.2
Page range: 161-185
Abstract views: 31
PDF downloaded: 1

Description of twelve new species of Platypalpus Macquart from Europe and the Middle East (Diptera, Empidoidea, Hybotidae)

Department of Zoology and Fisheries; Faculty of Agrobiology; Food and Natural Resources; Czech University of Life Sciences Prague; Kamýcká 129; 165 00 Praha-Suchdol; Czech Republic
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences; Rue Vautier 29; B - 1000 Brussels Belgium
Diptera taxonomy new species Tachydromiinae Palaearctic Region

Abstract

Twelve new species of Platypalpus Macquart from Europe and the Middle East are described, classified in three out of the eleven West-Palaearctic species groups. The albiseta group is represented by only one species: P. flavisetoides sp. nov. (Turkey). Two species belong to the longicornis group: P. curvifemur sp. nov. (Turkey) and P. vercorsensis sp. nov. (France). The pallidiventris-cursitans group is the most abundant group with nine species: P. exsectus sp. nov. (Bulgaria), P. huzur sp. nov. (Turkey, Greece), P. kayakoyensis sp. nov. (Turkey), P. kubiki sp. nov. (Spain), P. lorcaensis sp. nov. (Spain), P. sanrossorensis sp. nov. (Italy), P. serviae sp. nov. (Spain, Portugal), P. slovacus sp. nov. (Slovakia) and P. turgidoides sp. nov. (Spain).

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