<strong>New data on the genus <em>Platypalpus</em> (Diptera: Hybotidae) from the Caucasus with description of seven new species</strong>

SEMEN KUSTOV; IGOR SHAMSHEV; PATRICK GROOTAERT

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3973.3.3

Issue: Vol. 3973 No. 3: 18 Jun. 2015

Type: Article

Published: 2015-06-18

DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3973.3.3

Page range: 451–473

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**New data on the genus Platypalpus (Diptera: Hybotidae) from the Caucasus with description of seven new species**

SEMEN KUSTOV⁺⁻
IGOR SHAMSHEV⁺⁻
PATRICK GROOTAERT⁺⁻

Kuban' State University, Biological Faculty, Department of Zoology, Stavropol'skaya str., 149, Krasnodar, 350040, Russia.

Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaja nab. 1, St.Petersburg, 199034, Russia. All-Russian Institute of Plant Protection, shosse Podbel’skogo 3, 188620, St. Petersburg, Russia.

Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Vautierstraat 29, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium.

Diptera Hybotidae Platypalpus review new species Palaearctic Caucasus

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Abstract

Currently, 47 species of the genus Platypalpus are known from the Caucasus including fourteen species recorded herein for the first time: P. albicornis (Zetterstedt, 1842), P. baldensis (Strobl, 1899), P. caroli Grootaert, 1987, P. ciliaris (Fallén, 1816), P. clarandus (Collin, 1926), P. collini (Chvála, 1966), P. cothurnatus Macquart, 1827, P. infectus (Collin, 1926), P. longicornis (Meigen, 1822), P. luteicornis (Meigen, 1838), P. nigrinus (Meigen, 1822), P. pseudociliaris (Strobl, 1910), P. ruficornis (von Roser, 1840), and P. smirnovi Kovalev, 1978. In addition, seven new species are described: P. akhunensis sp. nov. (Russia: Krasnodarskiy Territory), P. kintrishiensis sp. nov. (Georgia), P. lantsovi sp. nov. (Georgia), P. pseudosilvahumidus sp. nov. (Russia: Krasnodarskiy Territory, Karachay-Cherkessia), P. sinevi sp. nov. (Russia: Karachay-Cherkessia), P. subcaucasicus sp. nov. (Russia: Krasnodarskiy Territory, Dagestan) and P. teberdaensis sp. nov. (Russia: Karachay-Cherkessia). A key to species of Platypalpus from the Caucasus is presented for the first time.