Culicoides Latreille and Leptoconops Skuse biting midges of the southwestern United States with emphasis on the Canyonlands of southeastern Utah (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)
Author
Phillips, Robert A.
2962 Desert Road Moab, UT 84532 USA
text
Insecta Mundi
2022
2022-01-28
2022
907
1
214
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.6391684
1942-1354
6391684
CBD29188-143B-44DF-BE21-1654D50D8621
Leptoconops
(
Holoconops
)
whitseli
Clastrier and Wirth
Leptoconops
(
Holoconops
)
whitseli
Clastrier and Wirth, 1978: 20
(key; female, male, pupa; fig. female antenna, palpus,
spermathecae, male fore tarsomere 1, genitalia, palpus, pupal respiratory horn, abdominal segments;
California
).
Leptoconops kerteszi
, misidentified:
Whitsel and Schoeppner 1965
(attractant study).
Distribution.
Coastal
California
beaches (Monterey and
Santa Barbara
counties).
Larval ecology.
Immatures have been reared from ocean beach sand (
Clastrier and Wirth 1978
).
Adult behavior.
Males have been collected from Umbelliferae flowers (
Clastrier and Wirth 1978
). Little else is known about the biology of this species other than that the mandibular and lacinial teeth on the female and attraction to CO
2
indicate it feeds on vertebrate blood.
Remarks.
No
L
.
whitseli
were examined.