Dasyhelea mutabilis (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 : 23

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

Ceratopogon mutabilis Coquillett, 1901: 602 View in CoL (Washington, D.C.). Culicoides mutabilis: Kieffer 1906: 54 (combination). Pseudoculicoides mutabilis: Malloch 1915a: 310 (combination). Dasyhelea mutabilis: Thomsen 1935: 283 View in CoL (combination); Waugh and Wirth 1976: 242 (revision of eastern

U.S. Dasyhelea View in CoL ; distribution); Wilkening et al. 1985: 519 (Florida records); Borkent and Grogan

2009: 11 (in Nearctic catalog; distribution).

Discussion. Wilkening et al. (1985) listed this species from Alachua, Duval, Levy and Monroe counties, and Hribar and Grogan (2005) provided additional Monroe Co. records from Long Key. We have tentatively identified a female from St. Lucie Co. that is slightly smaller (wing length 0.66 mm) than reported by Waugh and Wirth (1976) for females of this species (wing length 0.72-0.83 mm). Waugh and Wirth suggested that at least two species may inhabit the eastern United States based on variation of spermatheca size and neck length as well as the pupal respiratory organ. Regardless, this is the first record of this species from St. Lucie Co.

New records. St. Lucie Co., 20-VIII-1986, R. L. Escher, 1 female (WLGC).

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.

Malloch, J. R. 1915 a. The Chironomidae, or midges, of Illinois, with particular reference to the species occurring in the Illinois River. Bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History 10: 275 - 543, 24 pl.

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

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.