Bezzia brevicornis (Kieffer)

Ayala, Mahia M., Spinelli, Gustavo R., Funes, Amparo & Ronderos, María M., 2015, Additional notes on biting midges from the subtropical forest of northeastern Argentina (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), Zootaxa 3941 (1), pp. 79-90 : 89

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scientific name	Bezzia brevicornis (Kieffer)
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Bezzia brevicornis (Kieffer) View in CoL

Bezzia brevicornis Kieffer, 1917: 328 View in CoL (male, female; Paraguay); Wirth, 1974: 52 (in catalogue south of USA); Spinelli, 1983: 18; Spinelli & Wirth, 1993: 63 (in list, Argentina); Borkent & Wirth, 1997: 125 (in World catalogue); Spinelli, 1998: 326 (in list, Argentina); Borkent & Spinelli, 2000: 60 (in catalogue south to USA); Borkent & Spinelli, 2007: 93 (in Neotropical catalogue); Spinelli et al., 2012: 64 (redescription of pupa); Borkent, 2015: 159 (in online World catalogue).

Distribution. Paraguay, Argentina (Misiones, Corrientes, Entre Ríos, Buenos Aires, Río Negro), Uruguay. New record. Argentina, Misiones Prov., Posadas, Miguel Lanús, área de Recursos Ambientales El Zaimán, 27° 26' 11.6'' S, 55° 53' 48.7'' W, 28-III-2014, M. Ayala, 1 male (with pupal exuviae).

References

Borkent, A. & Wirth, W. W. (1997) World species of biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 233, 1 - 257.

Borkent, A. & Spinelli, G. R. (2000) Catalog of the New World biting midges south of the United States of America (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Contributions on Entomology, International, 4, 1 - 107.

Borkent, A. & Spinelli, G. R. (2007) Neotropical Ceratopogonidae (Diptera: Insecta). In: Adis, J., Arias, J. R., Rueda Delgado, G. & Wantzen, K. M. (Eds.), Aquatic Biodiversity in Latin America (ABLA). Vol. 4. Pensoft, Sofia-Moscow, 198 pp.

Borkent, A. (2015) World species of biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). 241 pp. Last update 1 February 2015. Available from: http: // wwx. inhs. illinois. edu / files / 1114 / 2384 / 5200 / CeratopogonidaeCatalog. pdf (accessed 4 March 2015)

Spinelli, G. R. (1983) Notas sobre Ceratopogonidae (Diptera: Nematocera) de la Republica Argentina. III. Nuevos aportes al conocimiento de la tribu Palpomyiini. Revista de la Sociedad Enomologica Argentina, 42, 17 - 24.

Spinelli, G. R. & Wirth, W. W. (1993) Los Ceratopogonidae de la Argentina (Insecta: Diptera). In: Castellanos, Z. A. de (Ed.), Fauna de agua dulce de la Republica Argentina, 38 (Fasc. 3), pp. 121. [La Plata]

Spinelli, G. R. (1998) Ceratopogonidae. In: Morrone, J. J. & Coscaron, S. (Eds.), Biodiversidad de Artropodos argentinos. Una perspectiva biotaxonomica. Ediciones Sur, La Plata, pp. 314 - 326.

Spinelli, G. R., Ronderos, M. M. & Cazorla, C. G. (2012) A new species of Bezzia Kieffer from Argentina (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Zootaxa, 3232, 62 - 68.

Wirth, W. W. (1974) Family Ceratopogonidae. In: Papavero, N. (Ed.), A catalog of the Diptera of the Americas South of the United States. Fasc. 14. Departamento de Zoologia, Secretaria da Agricultura, Sao Paulo, pp. 89.