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Hybos conicus Grootaert & Barták (Fig. 2G) Material examined. L5: 1 ♀; L7: 1 ♂. Distribution. So far known only from Greece and Turkey. This is the first record of the genus and species from Albania. Remarks. Hybos conicus was only recently separated from the highly similar H. culiciformis (Kanavalová et al. 2021). The male collected in Albania was dissected, and the genital structures showed complete agreement with the figures of the original description, especially both the epandrial and phallic structures (see Kanavalová et al. 2021, fig. 2). The female exhibits all non-genital morphological characters distinguishing the two species, including a postpedicel longer than the apical mechanoreceptor, pruinose lateral margins of tergites 3–5, a short ventral preapical seta on the mid tibiae, and black scutellar setae.
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