Culicoides (Amossovia) villosipennis Root and Hoffman

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 : 25

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5450733
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scientific name	Culicoides (Amossovia) villosipennis Root and Hoffman
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Culicoides (Amossovia) villosipennis Root and Hoffman View in CoL

Culicoides villosipennis Root and Hoffman, 1937: 165 (Maryland) View in CoL .

Culicoides (Oecacta) villosipennis: Khalaf 1954: 37 View in CoL ; Blanton and Wirth 1979: 169 (Florida records); Wilkening et al. 1985: 522 (Florida records).

Culicoides (Glaphiromyia) villosipennis: Vargas 1960: 41 View in CoL .

Culicoides (Amossovia) villosipennis: Borkent and Grogan 2009: 12 View in CoL (in Nearctic catalog; distribution).

Discussion. Wilkening et al. (1985) listed this eastern species from nine Florida counties. We provide the first records from Wakulla Co.

New records. Wakulla Co., Wakulla Springs State Park , Lodge Road, 25 May 2004, S. Murphree, CDC light trap with UV wand, 1 male, 2 females ; same data except Swamp on Lodge Rd. , 25-26-V-2004, CDC LT, 2 females ( BUTC; WLGC) .

References

Blanton, F. S., and W. W. Wirth. 1979. The sand flies (Culicoides) of Florida (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Land Areas 10: 1 - 204.

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

Khalaf, K. T. 1954. The speciation of the genus Culicoides (Diptera, Heleidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 47: 34 - 51.

Root, F. M., and W. A. Hoffman. 1937. The North American species of Culicoides. American Journal of Hygiene 25: 150 - 176.

Vargas, L. 1960. The subgenera of Culicoides of the Americas (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae). Revista de Biologia Tropical 8: 35 - 47.

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.