Forcipomyia (Pterobosca) fusicornis (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 : 18

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5450707
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scientific name	Forcipomyia (Pterobosca) fusicornis (Coquillett)
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Forcipomyia (Pterobosca) fusicornis (Coquillett) View in CoL

Ceratopogon fusicornis Coquillett, 1905: 63 (Florida) View in CoL .

Pterobosca fusicornis: Johannsen 1951: 117 View in CoL (combination).

Forcipomyia (Pterobosca) fusicornis: Wirth 1965: 123 View in CoL (combination; in Nearctic catalog); Wilkening et al. 1985: 517 (Florida records); Borkent and Grogan 2009: 9 (in Nearctic catalog; distribution).

Pterobosca floridana Johannsen, 1950: 143 (Florida) View in CoL .

Discussion. Adult females of this southern Nearctic and Caribbean species are ectoparasitic on Odonata . Wilkening et al. (1985) recorded it from eight counties in Florida. We provide the first records from Palm Beach Co., four females that were collected on the dragonfly, Anax junius (Drury) .

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. 1905. New nematocerous Diptera from North America. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 13: 56 - 69.

Johannsen, O. A. 1950. A new Pterobosca from Florida with a key to the American species. Florida Entomologist 33: 141 - 144.

Johannsen, O. A. 1951. Notes on North American species of Pterobosca. Florida Entomologist 34: 116 - 117.

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. 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.