Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) quatei Wirth, 1965

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 : 12-13

Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) quatei Wirth

Forcipomyia quatei Wirth, 1952a: 142 (California) .

Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) quatei: Wirth 1965: 126 (in Nearctic catalog); Wilkening et al. 1985: 516 (Florida records); Borkent and Grogan 2009: 7 (in Nearctic catalog; distribution).

Discussion. Wilkening et al. (1985) recorded this wide ranging New World species from 12 counties in Florida. We discovered a large series of this species in the FSCA from Indian River, Highlands and St. Lucie counties, which are the first records from these counties.

New records. Highlands Co., Archbold Biol. Sta. , 13-19-April-1989, W. W. Wirth, light trap, 2 females, 1 male ; same data except Lake Placid , 1-IV-1990, at UV light, 2 females, 1 male ( FSCA). Indian River Co., Fellesmere, 17-III-1956, LT, 1 male ; Vero Beach , Ent. Res. Cntr., May 1958 - Dec. 1960, light trap, 16 females, 36 males ( FSCA). St. Lucie Co. (no locality given), 11-VI-1986, R. L. Escher, C. F. PETA, 1 female ; same data except 18 March-27 May 1987, 3 females ( FSCA) .