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Great! :) The work is published in 1968.

7. Neomochtherus perplexus

Face, frons, vertex and and the posterior surface of head covered in dense silver-greyish or yellow-whitish dust; head bristles white or yellow, only eyes bristles sometimes black; palpus black with white hair; antennae basal segments red-yellowish or black; 3-d segment and arista black; its length is less then total length of two basal segments; arista longer then third segment.
Mesonotum in dense yellow-whitish dust, short white and black hair; median brown stripe divided by a narrow grey-dusted stripe, ends after the transverse suture of mesonotum; mesonotum with white or white and black bristles; dorsocentral bristles do not extend beyond transverse suture; scutellum in dense grey dust and sparse white hair.
Legs yellow, with white and black hair and firm bristles; anteriorly femur usually with longitudinal black stripe; tibia yellow, sometimes apically darkened; tarsus 1-st segment yellow, apically darkened; subsequent segments brown-blackish; claws black with reddish base.
Wings transparent or brownish; medial transverse vein located behind or above the middle of the discoid cell.
Abdomen in grey dust; tergites with short white and black hair and laterally white bristles; 1-st and 2-nd sternites with thin long white hair, subsequent sternites with firm white bristles.
Hypopygium black with black and white hair; both halves of the epandrium along the medial margin in front of the apex with two protrusions arranged one after the other, the protrusion located immediately in front of the apex is semicircularly cut along the edge; on the top, each half of the epandrium is elongated into a narrow process, intersecting with the symmetric process of the other half; basal segment of gonopod wide at base, strongly narrowed to apex, at the middle of medial margin with medially directed long black bristles; gonopod distal segment yellow, long, curved, not constricted at the apex, slightly cut in the middle of the apical margin; its inner surface at the top is covered with protruding black hair.
Ovipositor black or red-brownish; its length equals the length of the two preceding tergites combined; the ventral surface of the ventral plate in the long thin hairs.
Body length – 16-24 mm.
Ecology: Marked for the steppe and desert landscapes of eastern Transcaucasia and the middle Aras valley.
Distribution: South and southeast of the European part of the USSR, the Caucasus, Kazakhstan, Central Asia, Hungary, northern China, eastern Mongolia