Culicoides (Diphaomyia) edeni 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 : 26

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5352908
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5450739
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scientific name	Culicoides (Diphaomyia) edeni Wirth and Blanton
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Culicoides (Diphaomyia) edeni Wirth and Blanton View in CoL

Culicoides edeni Wirth and Blanton, 1974: 23 (Florida) View in CoL .

Culicoides (Diphaeomyia) edeni: Blanton and Wirth 1979: 81 View in CoL (Florida records; subgenus sic); Wilkening et al. 1985: 520 (Florida records).

Culicoides (Diphaomyia) edeni: Wirth et al. 1985: 18 View in CoL (in Nearctic Wing Atlas); Borkent and Grogan 2009: 13 (in Nearctic catalog; distribution).

Discussion. This species is known only from Florida, South Carolina and the Bahamas ( Borkent and Grogan 2009). Wilkening et al. (1985) listed it from 33 Florida counties, including Wakulla Co. We provide an additional record from Wakulla Co. as well as the first records from Bay and Santa Rosa counties.

New records. Bay Co., Callaway, Plantation Dr., 25 November 2002, J. Cilek, CO 2 baited CDC light trap, 1 female ; same data except 26 November 2002, C. F. Hallmon, 1 female ( FAMC). Santa Rosa Co., 9 September 2003, C. F. Hallmon, CO 2 baited CDC light trap, 1 female FAMC). Wakulla Co., Wakulla Springs State Park, spring 300 m E of Wakulla Spring , 25 May 2004, S. Murphree, NJ light trap, 1 female ( BUTC) .