Leptoconops (Holoconops) whitseli Clastrier and Wirth

Phillips, Robert A., 2022, Culicoides Latreille and Leptoconops Skuse biting midges of the southwestern United States with emphasis on the Canyonlands of southeastern Utah (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), Insecta Mundi 2022 (907), pp. 1-214 : 25

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.6391684
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scientific name	Leptoconops (Holoconops) whitseli Clastrier and Wirth
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Leptoconops (Holoconops) whitseli Clastrier and Wirth View in CoL

Leptoconops (Holoconops) whitseli Clastrier and Wirth, 1978: 20 View in CoL (key; female, male, pupa; fig. female antenna, palpus,

spermathecae, male fore tarsomere 1, genitalia, palpus, pupal respiratory horn, abdominal segments; California). Leptoconops kerteszi View in CoL , misidentified: Whitsel and Schoeppner 1965 (attractant study).

Distribution. Coastal California beaches (Monterey and Santa Barbara counties).

Larval ecology. Immatures have been reared from ocean beach sand ( Clastrier and Wirth 1978).

Adult behavior. Males have been collected from Umbelliferae flowers ( Clastrier and Wirth 1978). Little else is known about the biology of this species other than that the mandibular and lacinial teeth on the female and attraction to CO 2 indicate it feeds on vertebrate blood.

Remarks. No L. whitseli were examined.