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
Forcipomyia
(
Saliohelea
)
leei
Wirth and Ratanaworabhan
Forcipomyia
(
Saliohelea
)
leei
Wirth and Ratanaworabhan, 1978: 498
(
Colombia
)
;
Wilkening et al. 1985: 517
(Florida records);
Borkent and Grogan 2009: 9
(in Nearctic catalog; distribution).
Discussion.
This common species occurs in the eastern
United States
as far north as
New York
and in the Neotropics in the Caribbean to southern
Brazil
.
Wilkening et al. (1985)
listed it from Alachua, Jefferson, Leon, Marion and Orange counties. Subsequently,
Porch et al. (1992)
documented a specimen collected from a sundew (
Drosera
sp.
) “in a hillside bog along
U. S.
Highway 331” in Walton Co. Porch et al. referred to this individual as a female, but it is actually a male and apparently the only record of this species from Walton Co. We also provide the first records from Highlands Co.
New records.
Walton Co., Hwy. 331,
19 Oct. 1986
, S. S. Porch, ex.
Drosera
,
1 male
(WLGC). Highlands Co., Lake Placid, Archbold Biological Station,
4 April 1992
, W. W. Wirth, Malaise trap,
1 female
,
1 male
(FSCA).