Stilobezzia (Stilobezzia) pseudopunctulata Cazorla & Ronderos

Torreias, S. R. S., Ferreira-Keppler, R. L. & Ronderos, M. M., 2013, Biting midges (Ceratopogonidae: Diptera) present in aquatic macrophytes from wetlands of Marchantaria Island, Iranduba, Central Amazonia, Brazil, Journal of Natural History 48 (1 - 2), pp. 109-122 : 118

Stilobezzia (Stilobezzia) pseudopunctulata Cazorla & Ronderos

Stilobezzia (Stilobezzia) punctulata Lane : Cazorla & Marino, 2004: 77 (misident., in part, specimens from Bolivia).

Stilobezzia (Stilobezzia) pseudopunctulata Cazorla & Ronderos, 2012: 400 (male, female; Argentina and Bolivia; pupa; Brazil, Amazonas).

Distribution

Argentina (Chaco, Formosa, Corrientes and Buenos Aires provinces) , Bolivia (Santa Cruz), Brazil (Amazonas) .

Material examined

Brazil, Amazonas, Iranduba, Ilha da Marchantaria, Lago Grande, E. crassipes , P. stratiotes and S. auriculata , 27 July 2010, Marino, Díaz and Torreias, 1 female (reared in laboratory, with pupal exuvia).

Comments

This female specimen was identified and it was confirmed that it belongs to a new species from Brazil (Amazonas), Bolivia and northeastern Argentina that was described by Cazorla and Ronderos ( Cazorla et al. 2012). Borkent and Spinelli (2007) recorded 69 Neotropical species of this worldwide genus, and nine more species were subsequently described. The habitat of the immature stages includes natural and artificial environments, and plantations (e.g. rice). There are few descriptions of the immature form of this genus ( Cazorla et al. 2006, 2012), with only 13 species known from immature forms (one species from egg, 2 from larvae and 12 from pupae).