Forcipomyia (Lepidohelea) weemsi Wirth and Spinelli

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 : 15-16

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5352908

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5450701

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0A029528-3F06-EE18-FF60-135DB4D1FF75

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Felipe

scientific name

Forcipomyia (Lepidohelea) weemsi Wirth and Spinelli
status

 

Forcipomyia (Lepidohelea) weemsi Wirth and Spinelli View in CoL

Forcipomyia (Lepidohelea) weemsi Wirth and Spinelli, 1993a: 123 (Florida) View in CoL ; Borkent and Grogan 2009: 8 (in Nearctic catalog; distribution).

Discussion. This recently described species is known from North America from Maryland south to Florida, with isolated records in extreme southeastern Arizona and southern Baja California Sur, Mexico ( Wirth and Spinelli 1993a). Their holotype, allotype and several paratypes were from Alachua Co., Florida and other paratypes were from Highlands Co. We provide the first records from Monroe Co.

New records. Monroe Co., Key Largo , 29 Oct. 2008, D. DeMay, CO 2 baited light trap, 1 male ; Long Key State Park , 28 May 2009, D. DeMay, 1 male ( FLKC; WLGC) .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Ceratopogonidae

Genus

Forcipomyia

Loc

Forcipomyia (Lepidohelea) weemsi Wirth and Spinelli

William L. Grogan, Jr., Hribar, Lawrence J., Murphree, C. Steven & Cilek, James E. 2010
2010
Loc

Forcipomyia (Lepidohelea) weemsi

Borkent, A. & W. L. Grogan, Jr. 2009: 8
Wirth, W. W. & G. R. Spinelli 1993: 123
1993
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