Androprosopa americana, (Bezzi)

Sinclair, Bradley J., Pivar, Robert J. & Arnaud, Paul H., 2022, World Catalogue of the family Thaumaleidae (Diptera: Culicomorpha), Zootaxa 5225 (1), pp. 1-66 : 12

americana (Bezzi) . NE: Canada (Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia), United States of America (Alabama, Georgia,

Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi *, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina,

Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia).

Thaumalea americana Bezzi, 1913: 250 . Type locality: USA: Ithaca, New York. HT ♁ MSNM. Comstock 1924: 828 [wing figure, NE]; Dyar & Shannon 1924: 434 [key, redescription; distribution]; Johannsen 1928: 714 [distribution, New York]; Edwards 1929: 140 [redescription, distribution, figures of male and female terminalia]; Curran 1934: 68 [key to North American species]; Johannsen 1934: 56 [description, larva]; Lutz 1935: 230 [common North American species]; Vaillant 1959: 31 [review, NE]; Peterson 1960: 273 [larval description]; Vaillant 1963: 26 [phylogenetic discussion]; Stone 1964: 122 [key to eastern North American species, figures of head, wing, male terminalia, larva, synonymy]; Stone 1965: 120 [catalogue, NE]; Stone 1966: 1 [biology]; Wray 1967: 72 [checklist]; Cole 1969, 85 [habitus, distribution]; Saether 1970: 76 [larvae, NE]; Hennig 1973: 204 [notes on adult morphology]; Martinovský & Rozkošný 1976: 188 [phylogenetic discussion]; McAlpine 1981a: 17, fig. 2.19 [figure of antenna]; McAlpine 1981b: 93 [key to families, North America, figure of wing]; Stone & Peterson 1981: 351 [habitus, figure of wing]; Webb & Brigham 1982: 11.48 [checklist, North and South Carolina]; Arnett 1985: 667 [common species of northeastern North America]; Sinclair & Marshall 1987: 11 [member of madicolous fauna, eumadicolous]; Wood 1987: 142 [distribution, Cape Breton]; Peterson et al. 1989 [discussion of number of flagellomeres]; Sinclair 1990: 285 [distribution, Ontario]; Sinclair 1992: 492, 496, 498 [male terminalia and reproductive system]; Arnaud & Boussy 1994: 45 [generic assignment, discussion of male reproductive system, figure of male terminalia of holotype]; Poole 1996: 307 [checklist, NE].

Thaumalea johannis Dyar & Shannon, 1924: 434 . Type locality: USA: Cabin John, Maryland. LT ♁ USNM (Type No. 27461; USNMENT1028680) [on microscope slide]. Edwards 1929: 141 [brief comparison to A. americana ]; Curran 1934: 68 [key to North American species]; Vaillant 1959: 31 [review, NE]; Stone 1964: 122 [as synonym of T. americana, LT designated]; Cole 1969: 85 [distribution].

Orphnephila testacea of authors: Loew 1862: 6 [NE record]; Osten Sacken 1878: 23 [catalogue, NE]; Comstock & Comstock 1895: 449 [single NE species known]; Howard 1901: 124 [single NE species]; Aldrich 1905: 173 [catalogue, NE]; Young 1921: 258 [female adult abdomen]; Leathers 1922: 48 [larval habitat and feeding]; Dyar & Shannon 1924: 432 [taxonomic discussion]; Crampton 1925: 68 [adult thoracic morphology, phylogeny]; Stone 1965: 120 [catalogue, NE, synonym].

Orphnephila americana: Malloch 1917: 290 [discussion, synopsis]; Bertrand 1948: 168 [larvae].

Protothaumalea americana: Vaillant 1978a: 698 [new combination].

Androprosopa americana: Sinclair 1996: 371 [new combination, descriptions, illustrations of adult male and female, pupa, larva, egg, biology, distribution, colour morphs]; Strongman & White 2008: 1453 [Trichomycetes in gut of larvae]; Bertone et al. 2008: 674 [exemplar, Nematocera phylogeny].