Forcipomyia (Trichohelea) mcateei Wirth, 1965

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 : 20-21

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Forcipomyia (Trichohelea) mcateei Wirth View in CoL

Forcipomyia mcateei Wirth, 1956a: 359 (Maryland) View in CoL . Forcipomyia (Neoforcipomyia) mcateei: Wirth 1965: 124 View in CoL (in Nearctic catalog). Forcipomyia (Trichohelea) mcateei: Wirth and Messersmith 1971: 21 View in CoL (revision of North American

Trichohelea View in CoL Kieffer); Wilkening et al. 1985: 518 (Florida records); Borkent and Grogan 2009: 10 (in

Nearctic catalog; distribution). Forcipomyia (Trichohelea) saundersi Chan View in CoL , in Chan and LeRoux 1965: 87 (Quebec).

Discussion. Adult females in the subgenus Trichohelea are ectoparasites of several insect orders as well as opilionids. Wilkening et al. (1985) recorded this Nearctic species in Florida from Alachua, Hillsborough, Liberty and Monroe counties. We provide the first records from Highlands Co.

New records. Highlands Co., Lake Placid , Archbold Biological Station, Sept. 1990, W. W. Wirth, at UV light, 2 females ; same data except Price Tract , 1-IV-1990, 3 females ( FSCA) .

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.

Chan, K. L., and E. J. LeRoux. 1965. Description of Forcipomyia (Neoforcipomyia) sp. n. and redescription of Forcipomyia (Neoforcipomyia) eques (Johannsen) (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), with an account of the digestive and reproductive systems. Phytoprotection 46: 74 - 104.

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.

Wirth, W. W. 1956 a. New species and records of biting midges ectoparasitic on insects (Diptera, Heleidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 49: 356 - 364.

Wirth, W. W. 1965. Family Ceratopogonidae. p. 121 - 142. In: A. Stone, C. W. Sabrosky, W. W. Wirth, R. H. Foote, J. R. Coulson (eds.). A catalog of the Diptera of America north of Mexico. United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Agriculture Handbook 276: i-iv + 1 - 1696.

Wirth, W. W., and D. H. Messersmith. 1971. Studies on the genus Forcipomyia. I. The North American parasitic midges of the subgenus Trichohelea (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 64: 15 - 26.