Bezzia (Bezzia) spicata Dow and Turner

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 : 50

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scientific name	Bezzia (Bezzia) spicata Dow and Turner
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Bezzia (Bezzia) spicata Dow and Turner View in CoL

Bezzia (Pseudobezzia) spicata Dow and Turner, 1976: 77 View in CoL (Florida; revision of Nearctic Bezzia View in CoL ; distribution).

Bezzia (Bezzia) spicata: Wilkening et al. 1985: 529 View in CoL (Florida records); Borkent and Grogan 2009: 26 (in Nearctic catalog; distribution).

Discussion. Dow and Turner (1976) designated the holotype and paratypes from Wakulla Co. and other paratypes from Alachua and Indian River counties. We provide the first records from Gilchrist, Highlands, Hillsborough and St. Lucie counties.

New records. Gilchrist Co., Suwannee County line, Santa Fe River at SR-129, 1-vii-1981, Paul M. Choate, BLT, 2 females (USNM). Highlands Co., Lake Placid, 19 Apr. 1970, J. N. Layne, light trap, 1 female (USNM). Hillsborough Co., Harris Swamp, 13/ 14-IV-1967, 5 males (USNM). St. Lucie Co., Mar. 1956, light trap, 1 female (USNM).

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.

Dow, M. I., and E. C. Turner. 1976. A revision of the Nearctic species of the genus Bezzia (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Occasional Papers from the Department of Entomology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Research Division Bulletin 103: 1 - 162.

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.