Sphaeromias longipennis (Loew)

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 : 46-47

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5352908
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5450842
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scientific name	Sphaeromias longipennis (Loew)
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Sphaeromias longipennis (Loew) View in CoL

Ceratopogon longipennis Loew, 1861: 313 (Pennsylvania) View in CoL .

Palpomyia (Sphaeromyas) longipennis: Kieffer 1906: 62 View in CoL (combination).

Palpomyia longipennis: Malloch 1914b: 221 View in CoL .

Homohelea longipennis: Kieffer 1917: 364 (combination).

Sphaeromias longipennis: Johannsen 1943: 784 View in CoL (combination); Wilkening et al. 1985: 529 (Florida records); Borkent and Grogan 2009: 25 (in Nearctic catalog; distribution).

Discussion. This common Nearctic species occurs from Alberta to Quebec, south to California, Texas and Florida ( Borkent and Grogan 2009). As noted by Wilkening et al. (1985), there is only one other species in North America, S. bifidus Wirth and Grogan (1979) , which is known only from the holotype male and allotype female from Maryland. Wilkening et al. (1985) recorded S. longipennis from Alachua, Franklin, Highlands, Leon, Orange and Putnam counties in Florida. We provide the first record from Manatee Co.

New records. Manatee Co., Bradenton, 23-V-1955, F. W. Mead, at light, 1 female (P) (FSCA).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Diptera
Family	Ceratopogonidae
Genus	Sphaeromias