Genus Phaenobezzia Haeselbarth, 1965 Type species Probezzia pistiae Ingram & Macfie, 1921; by original designation. Diagnosis Large, slender, nearly bare midges. Legs slender; femora unarmed; female fifth tarsomeres with long, stout, sharp setae with bent tips. Female claws equal, evenly curved or bent at base, each with small basal inner tooth. Wing with 1 radial cell; costa extending 0.80–0.90 of wing length. Gonostylus very small, rarely absent (de Meillon & Wirth 1991).

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 page 21, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.318, http://zenodo.org/record/3827451