Dasyhelea flavifrons (Guérin-Méneville)

William L. Grogan, Jr., Hribar, Lawrence J., Murphree, C. Steven & Cilek, James E., 2010, New records of biting and predaceous midges from Florida, including species new to the fauna of the United States (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), Insecta Mundi 2010 (147), pp. 1-59 : 22

Dasyhelea flavifrons (Guérin-Méneville)

Ceratopogon flavifrons Guérin-Méneville, 1833: 165 ( France) .

Dasyhelea flavifrons: Kieffer 1919a: 51 (combination); Borkent and Grogan 2009: 11 (in Nearctic catalog; distribution).

Dasyhelea oppressa Thomsen, 1935: 285 (New York); Waugh and Wirth 1976: 230 (revision of eastern United States Dasyhelea ; distribution); Wilkening et al. 1985: 519 (Florida records); Hribar and Grogan 2005: 231 (Monroe Co., Florida records) ; Szadziewski and Dominiak 2006: 142 (as synonym of C. flavifrons Guérin-Méneville ); Borkent and Grogan 2009: 11 (synonym of D. flavifrons ).

Discussion. This common Holarctic species was previously known in North America as D. oppressa , but recently, Szadziewski and Dominiak (2006) demonstrated that it was a synonym of D. flavifrons (Guérin-Méneville) . Wilkening et al. (1985) recorded it in Florida from Alachua and Liberty counties, and Hribar and Grogan (2005) provided the first records from Monroe Co.