Bezzia (Bezzia) imbifida 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 : 47-48

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

Bezzia (Pseudobezzia) imbifida Dow and Turner, 1976: 38 (Maryland) View in CoL . Bezzia (Bezzia) imbifida: Borkent and Grogan 2009: 26 View in CoL (in Nearctic catalog; distribution).

Discussion. The type series of this species was from Worcester Co., Maryland, but it was also recently recorded from Ontario and Virginia ( Borkent and Grogan 2009). We have identified three females of this species from Liberty Co., Florida in the USNM, but no co-associated males which have distinctive male genitalia. These Florida specimens and others from Connecticut and Louisiana (USNM) will be addressed by a study in progress by WLG of the Bezzia expolita complex.

New records. Liberty Co., Torreya St. Park, 29-V-1966, H. V. Weems, 1 female ; same data except 22 Apr. 1967, W. W. Wirth, light trap, 2 females ( USNM). New Florida state record .

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.