Forcipomyia (Lepidohelea) eadsi Wirth and Spinelli

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 : 14

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5352908
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5450691
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scientific name	Forcipomyia (Lepidohelea) eadsi Wirth and Spinelli
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Forcipomyia (Lepidohelea) eadsi Wirth and Spinelli View in CoL

Forcipomyia (Lepidohelea) eadsi Wirth and Spinelli, 1993b: 622 (Texas) View in CoL ; Hribar and Grogan 2005: 229 (Monroe Co., Florida record) ; Borkent and Grogan 2009: 8 (in Nearctic catalog; distribution).

Discussion. The type series of this recently described species was from specimens collected in Texas from Cameron (holotype, allotype), Hidalgo, Kerr, Starr and Val Verde counties. Wirth and Spinelli (1993b) also listed several other specimens they identified as this species from Florida in Alachua, Dade, Hardee, Highlands, Indian River, Jackson, Liberty and Orange counties as well as a male from Washington Co., Mississippi, however, they did not designate these paratypes. Hribar and Grogan (2005) provided the first record from Monroe Co., and we have tentatively identified a few more recently collected males from that county as this species.

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.

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.

Wirth, W. W., and G. R. Spinelli. 1993 b. The North American species of the Forcipomyia (Lepidohelea) bicolor subgroup (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 95: 611 - 634.