Dasyhelea atlantis Wirth and Williams

William L. Grogan, Jr., Hribar, Lawrence J., Murphree, C. Steven & Cilek, James E., 2010, New records of biting and predaceous midges from Florida, including species new to the fauna of the United States (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), Insecta Mundi 2010 (147), pp. 1-59 : 21

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5352908
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5450721
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scientific name	Dasyhelea atlantis Wirth and Williams
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Dasyhelea atlantis Wirth and Williams View in CoL

Dasyhelea atlantis Wirth and Williams, 1957: 11 ( Bermuda) View in CoL ; Waugh and Wirth 1976: 245 (revision of eastern United States Dasyhelea Kieffer View in CoL ; distribution); Borkent and Grogan 2009: 11 (in Nearctic catalog; distribution).

Discussion. Wirth and Williams (1957) described this species from Bermuda specimens collected by light traps and reared from larvae and pupae, and reported that it was among the most commonly collected species in their study. Williams (1957) published habitat data for a number of Ceratopogonidae from Bermuda and noted that immature stages of D. atlantis were collected from strands of seaside purslane, Sesuvium portulacastrum (L.). This species has only been recorded in Florida from Indian River Co. ( Wilkening et al. 1985). We provide the first records from Monroe Co. that includes a male reared from a pupa collected on seaside purslane.

New records. Monroe Co., Long Key , 1-XI-2007, L. Hribar, ex. strand of sea purslane, 1 male with pupal exuviae ; Big Pine Key , Driftwood Ct., 1 April 2008, E. Wirsching, light trap, 1 male ; No Name Key , 2 Feb. 2009 ; D. DeMay , 3 males, 2 females ( FLKC; WLGC) .

References

Borkent, A., and W. L. Grogan, Jr. 2009. Catalog of the New World biting midges north of Mexico (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Zootaxa 2273: 1 - 48.

Waugh, W. T., and W. W. Wirth. 1976. A revision of the genus Dasyhelea Kieffer of the eastern United States north of Florida (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 69: 219 - 247.

Wilkening, A. J., D. L. Kline, and W. W. Wirth. 1985. An annotated checklist of the Ceratopogonidae (Diptera) of Florida with a new synonymy. Florida Entomologist 68: 511 - 537.

Williams, R. W. 1957. Observations on the breeding habitats of some Heleidae of the Bermuda Islands (Diptera). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 59: 61 - 66.

Wirth, W. W., and R. W. Williams. 1957. The biting midges of the Bermuda Islands, with descriptions of five new species (Diptera, Heleidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 59: 5 - 14.