Dasyhelea grisea (Coquillett)

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 : 22-23

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scientific name	Dasyhelea grisea (Coquillett)
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Dasyhelea grisea (Coquillett) View in CoL

Ceratopogon griseus Coquillett, 1901: 602 View in CoL (Washington, D.C.). Culicoides griseus: Kieffer 1906: 54 (combination). Dasyhelea grisea: Thomsen 1935: 283 View in CoL (combination); Waugh and Wirth 1976: 228 (revision of eastern

U.S. Dasyhelea View in CoL ; distribution); Wilkening et al. 1985: 518 (Florida records); Borkent and Grogan

2009: 11 (in Nearctic catalog; distribution).

Discussion. Wilkening et al. (1985) listed this very common Nearctic species from 13 Florida counties including Monroe Co. Thomsen (1937) and Waugh and Wirth (1976) noted that this species has been reared from algae in freshwater ponds. Hribar and Grogan (2005) provided the first records of this species from Long and Vaca Keys, Monroe Co. Our additional record from this county is a female from Long Key that was reared from a pupa collected from sea purslane, which is apparently a new larval habitat for this species.

New records. Monroe Co., Long Key, 1-XI-2007, L. Hribar, ex. strand of sea purslane, 1 female with pupal exuviae (FLKC).

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.

Coquillett, D. W. 1901. New Diptera in the U. S. National Museum. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 23: 593 - 618.

Hribar, L. J., and W. L. Grogan, Jr. 2005. New records of biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) and frog-biting midges (Diptera: Corethrellidae) from the Florida Keys. Florida Scientist 68: 227 - 235.

Kieffer, J. J. 1906. Diptera. Fam. Chironomidae. In: P. Wytsman (ed.). Genera Insectorum. Fasc. 42: 1 - 78, 4 pls.

Thomsen, L. 1935. New species of New York State Ceratopogonidae. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 43: 283 - 297.

Thomsen, L. 1937. Aquatic Diptera Part V. Ceratpogonidae. Cornell University Agriculture Experiment Station Memoir 210: 57 - 80, pl. 10 - 18.

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.