Phaenobezzia spekei (Macfie, 1939) Nilobezzia spekei Macfie, 1939: 101 (♀, description, Uganda). Phaenobezzia spekei – Boorman & van Harten 2002: 459 (♀ and ♂ recorded, diagnosis of ♀, Yemen). Diagnosis Scutum dark brown, scutellum paler, with 8 bristles. Fore leg yellow; tibia darker towards tip; tarsomeres 3–5 dark; mid leg similarly colored but tarsus darker; hind leg with yellow femur, dark tibia and tarsus with bristles. Female fifth tarsomeres with 3–4 pairs of sharp, black, spine-like setae with bent tips; 2 large seminal capsules with long necks (Boorman & van Harten 2002). Boorman & van Harten (2002) reported males from Yemen, but they were not diagnosed or illustrated. Distribution Uganda, Yemen.

Published as part of 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, pp. 1-30 in European Journal of Taxonomy 318 on pages 21-22, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.318, http://zenodo.org/record/3827451