Platypalpus kirtlingensis Grootaert, 1986

Zouhair, Laila, Grootaert, Patrick, Gençer, Lütfiye & Kettani, Kawtar, 2025, Turkish Hybotidae (Diptera: Empidoidea): description of six new species with additional data, Zootaxa 5609 (4), pp. 503-524 : 517-518

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5609.4.3

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:CCA9A864-30BD-454F-A196-3695E00613F5

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15215572

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039BD342-5816-D906-A1DD-5B0A0D0B3FDE

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Plazi

scientific name

Platypalpus kirtlingensis Grootaert, 1986
status

 

Platypalpus kirtlingensis Grootaert, 1986 View in CoL

( Fig. 14 View FIGURE 14 )

Length. Body 2.1 mm, wing 2.5 mm.

Material examined. Çorum prov. 1♂, Alaca , 40.644 N, 34.262 E, 697 m, grassland, 07.vi.2003, sweep net, leg. L. Gençer. GoogleMaps Sivas prov. 1♂, SuŞehri , 40.163 N, 38.090 E, 1056 m, grassland, 31.v.2009, sweep net, leg. L. Gençer. GoogleMaps

Distribution. Europe: Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Macedonia, Malta, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, former Yugoslavia; Russia ( Shamshev 2016). Asia: Turkey and Uzbekistan ( Grootaert 2008; Barták & Kubik 2018; Shamshev 2016).

Remarks. Platypalpus kirtlingensis is newly recorded here from Central Anatolia (Sivas province) after its record by Grootaert (2008) and Barták & Kubik (2018) in the Aegean region (Aydin and Muðla provinces), and in the Black Sea region (Samsun province) and Mediterranean region (Burdur province) by Barták & Kubik (2018). We add here another record for the species in the Black Sea region (Çorum province).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Hybotidae

SubFamily

Tachydromiinae

Genus

Platypalpus

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