Dasyhelea cincta (Coquillett)

Grogan, Willliam L., Díaz, Florentina, Spinelli, Gustavo R. & Ronderos, Maria M., 2016, The biting and predaceous midges of Guadeloupe (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). II. Species of the subfamily Dasyheleinae, Zootaxa 4184 (2), pp. 201-254 : 208

Dasyhelea cincta (Coquillett)

Ceratopogon cinctus Coquillett, 1901: 605 (Florida) .

Culicoides cinctus: Kieffer 1906: 54 (combination).

Pseudoculicoides cinctus: Malloch 1915: 311 (combination).

Dasyhelea cincta: Johannsen 1943: 778 (combination); Wirth 1952: 150 (California; distribution); Wirth & Williams 1957: 9 ( Bermuda) ; Waugh & Wirth 1976: 222 (in revision of eastern U.S. Dasyhelea ; distribution); Davies & Giglioli 1979: 592 (Grand Cayman); Spinelli & Wirth 1984: 597 (Jamaica; Haiti, Mexico, Panama); Huerta et al. 1999: 493 (Mexico records); Borkent & Spinelli 2000: 25 (in New World catalog south of the USA; distribution); Borkent & Spinelli 2007: 60 (in Neotropical catalog; distribution).

Dasyhelea penthesileae Macfie, 1935: 55 (Brazil) ; Spinelli, 1983: 407 (male, female redescribed, pupa; Argentina record).

Diagnosis. A large species, male wing length 1.39–1.49 mm; female wing length 1.18–1.47 mm. Males differ from all other Neotropical species in the cincta group by their elongate, triangular paramere that is narrowly fused to both gonocoxal apodemes, a crescent-shaped aedeagus with a pair of long, posterolateral arms the tips of which are convergent and sometimes extend beyond the distal margin of the hyaline envelope, sternite 9 with a short posterior extension with a U-shaped distal margin, and a tergite 9 with a slightly rounded posterior margin and very short apicolateral processes. Females differ from all other Neotropical species in the cincta group by the following combination of characters: a slender elliptical frontal sclerite with broad, ribbon-like lateral borders; small (48 x 42 µm) spherical to ovoid spermathecae with numerous hyaline punctations and short, slender necks; abdominal pleurae with numerous black streaks; and, sternite 8 with heavily sclerotized distal margin that overlies the long quadrate subgenital plate.

Discussion. This widespread New World species ranges from California to New York south to Florida (Borkent & Grogan 2009), the Caribbean region in the Bahamas, Bermuda, Jamaica, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Dominica, Grenada, and in South America in Ecuador, Trinidad, and Brazil south to Argentina ( Spinelli & Wirth 1984; Borkent & Spinelli 2000, 2007). We provide the first records of D. cincta from Guadeloupe .

Material examined. Guadeloupe, Basse Terre, La Trace du Petit-Malendure, 21-V-2012, R. H. Turnbow, BL trap, 1 female . New Guadeloupe record.