New records of biting and predaceous midges from Florida, including species new to the fauna of the United States (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)
Author
William L. Grogan, Jr.
Author
Hribar, Lawrence J.
Author
Murphree, C. Steven
Author
Cilek, James E.
text
Insecta Mundi
2010
2010-10-15
2010
147
1
59
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.5352908
1942-1354
5352908
Atrichopogon
(
Lophomyidium
)
archboldi
Wirth
Atrichopogon
(
Lophomyidium
)
archboldi
Wirth, 1994a: 27
(
Florida
)
;
Borkent and Grogan 2009: 5
(in Nearctic catalog; distribution).
Discussion.
This is apparently a wide ranging species currently known from Florida, Texas and California, south to
Argentina
(
Borkent and Grogan 2009
). In his revision of the Nearctic species in the subgenus
Lophomyidium
,
Wirth (1994a)
listed Florida specimens from Alachua, Dade, Highlands, Lee, Orange and Putnam counties.