Rhynchohelea monilicornis Wirth and Blanton

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 : 38

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5352908
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5450804
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scientific name	Rhynchohelea monilicornis Wirth and Blanton
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Rhynchohelea monilicornis Wirth and Blanton View in CoL

Rhynchohelea monilicornis Wirth and Blanton, 1970: 98 (Florida) View in CoL ; Wilkening et al. 1985: 525 (Florida records); Borkent and Grogan 2009: 21 (in Nearctic catalog; distribution).

Discussion. This minute, very rare New World species was originally described from three females, the holotype and paratype from Liberty Co., Florida and a female paratype from Imperial Co., California ( Wirth and Blanton 1970). Wilkening et al. (1985) added another Florida record from Marion Co., and we provide the first records from Highlands Co. Inexplicably, Borkent and Grogan (2009) did not include California in their distribution section of this species, but they also included Costa Rica based on recently collected specimens in the INBio collection in San Jose, Costa Rica.

New records. Highlands Co., Lake Placid , Archbold Biological Station, 3 April 1992, W. W. Wirth, Malaise trap, 1 female ; same data except Price tract, 1-IV-1990, 1 female ( FSCA) .

References

Borkent, A., and W. L. Grogan, Jr. 2009. Catalog of the New World biting midges north of Mexico (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Zootaxa 2273: 1 - 48.

Wilkening, A. J., D. L. Kline, and W. W. Wirth. 1985. An annotated checklist of the Ceratopogonidae (Diptera) of Florida with a new synonymy. Florida Entomologist 68: 511 - 537.

Wirth, W. W., and F. S. Blanton. 1970. Notes on Brachypogon Kieffer (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae), a new species, and two new Neotropical genera of the tribe Ceratopogonini. Florida Entomologist 53: 93 - 104.