Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) swezeyana Tokunaga and Murachi

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 : 13

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5352908
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5450679
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scientific name	Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) swezeyana Tokunaga and Murachi
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Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) swezeyana Tokunaga and Murachi View in CoL

Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) swezeyana Tokunaga and Murachi, 1959: 145 View in CoL ( Guam, Tinian, Palau); Debenham 1987: 303 ( Australia); Wirth and Spinelli 1992c: 599 (Florida records).

Discussion. As noted by Wirth and Spinelli (1992c), F. swezeyana belongs to an Old World complex that Debenham (1987) termed the “ swezeyana Group”, several members of which have been reared from tropical plants (bananas, cassava, etc.). Wirth and Spinelli (1992c) suggested that this was probably how this species was introduced into Florida, and listed specimens from Dade, Orange and Palm Beach counties, all but one of which were reared from portions of decaying banana and Philodendron .