Forcipomyia (Euprojoannisia) blantoni Soria and Bystrak

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 : 9

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scientific name	Forcipomyia (Euprojoannisia) blantoni Soria and Bystrak
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Forcipomyia (Euprojoannisia) blantoni Soria and Bystrak View in CoL

Forcipomyia (Euforcipomyia) blantoni Soria and Bystrak, 1975: 3 ( Brazil) View in CoL .

Forcipomyia (Euprojoannisia) blantoni: Bystrak and Wirth 1978: 13 View in CoL (revision of North American Euprojoannisia View in CoL Bréthes ; United States records); Wilkening et al. 1985: 515 (Florida records); Hribar and Grogan 2005: 228 (Monroe Co., Florida records) ; Borkent and Grogan 2009: 7 (in Nearctic catalog; distribution) .

Discussion. This eastern Nearctic species occurs from Virginia to Florida and in the Neotropics to Brazil. Wilkening et al. (1985) listed it from 16 Florida counties, and Porch et al. (1992) recorded a specimen taken from a sundew in Walton Co., the first record from that county that we relist below. More recently, Hribar and Grogan (2005) provided the first records from Monroe Co.; we provide the first records from Highlands and St. Lucie counties.

New records. Highlands Co., Lake Placid, Archbold Biological Station, 15-IX-1990, W. W. Wirth, at Polygonella flowers, 5 females, 2 males (FSCA). St. Lucie Co., (?Ft. Pierce), 24 Dec 1986, R. L. Escher, 1 female (FSCA). Walton Co., Hwy. 331, 24 Sept. 1986, S. S. Porch, ex. Drosera , 1 male (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.

Bystrak, P. G., and W. W. Wirth. 1978. The North American species of Forcipomyia, subgenus Euprojoannisia (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). United States Department of Agriculture, Technical Bulletin 1591: 1 - 51.

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.

Porch, S. S., W. L. Grogan, Jr., and L. J. Hribar. 1992. Biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) captured by sundews. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 94: 172 - 173.

Soria, S., and P. G. Bystrak. 1975. A new species of Forcipomyia (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae) described in all stages, with an account of its role as a cacao pollinator. Revista Theobroma 5 (2): 3 - 11.

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.