Atrichopogon (Atrichopogon) maculosus Ewen, 1958

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 : 5

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scientific name	Atrichopogon (Atrichopogon) maculosus Ewen
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Atrichopogon (Atrichopogon) maculosus Ewen View in CoL

Atrichopogon maculosus Ewen View in CoL , in Ewen and Saunders, 1958: 689 (Saskatchewan).

Atrichopogon (Atrichopogon) maculosus: Wirth 1965: 123 View in CoL (in Nearctic catalog; distribution); Wilkening et al. 1985: 515 (Levy Co. Florida record); Borkent and Grogan 2009: 5 (in Nearctic catalog; distribution).

Discussion. This Nearctic species is only known from Saskatchewan, Virginia, Maryland and Florida ( Borkent and Grogan 2009). Wilkening et al. (1985) only listed it in Florida from Levy Co. We provide the first records from Alachua, Charlotte, Gilchrist, Hardee and Liberty counties.

New records. Alachua Co., Gainesville , 22 June 1960, Gerald Hicks, 5 females ; same data except V- 1963, F. S. Blanton, 1 male ; same data except April 1960, Sathena Cabler, bird nest, 2 females ( FSCA). Charlotte Co., Englewood Beach , 16-VI-1966, Jernigan, 1 female ( FSCA). Gilchrist Co., Suwannee R., V- VI-1962, G. R. Hicks, 7 females, 4 males; (no locality given) , 3 July 1960, Gerald Hicks, 1 female ( FSCA). Hardee Co., Wauchulla , 6 June 1961, S. B. H., 5 females, 2 males ; same data except 13 June 1960, W. Jernigan, 1 male ( FSCA). Liberty Co., Torreya St. Park, 4-VII-1965, H. V. Weems, 2 males, same data except: 20-V-1966, 10 females, 7 males, same data except 15-IV-1957, F. S. Blanton, 1 female ( 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.

Ewen, A. B., and L. G. Saunders. 1958. Contributions toward a revision of the genus Atrichopogon based on characters of all stages (Diptera, Heleidae). Canadian Journal of Zoology 36: 671 - 724.

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.

Abbreviations

FSCA	Florida State Collection of Arthropods, The Museum of Entomology
R	Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile
V	Royal British Columbia Museum - Herbarium