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

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

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

Nearctic catalog; distribution). Forcipomyia ( Trichohelea) saundersi Chan , 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) .