Bezzia (Bezzia) flavitarsis Malloch, 1914

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

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5352908
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5450846
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scientific name	Bezzia (Bezzia) flavitarsis Malloch
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Bezzia (Bezzia) flavitarsis Malloch View in CoL

Bezzia flavitarsis Malloch, 1914c: 283 (Illinois) View in CoL .

Bezzia (Pseudobezzia) flavitarsis: Wirth 1951: 323 View in CoL ; Dow and Turner 1976: 34 (revision of Nearctic Bezzia View in CoL ; distribution).

Bezzia (Bezzia) flavitarsis: Wilkening et al. 1985: 529 View in CoL (Collier Co., Florida record); Borkent and Grogan 2009: 26 (in Nearctic catalog; distribution).

Discussion. This species is currently known from Ontario and New Brunswick, Canada and south to California, Montana and Florida ( Borkent and Grogan 2009). Wilkening et al. (1985) recorded it only from Collier Co. in Florida. We provide the first records from Alachua, Highlands, Jackson, Leon and Liberty counties.

New records. Alachua Co., Gainesville, Chantilly Acres , 3 May-11 June 1967, F. S. Blanton, 7 females, 1 male ( USNM) ; Gainesville, Oak Crest , 15-IV-1985, W. W. Wirth, UVLT, 1 female, same data except 4- IV-1986, 1 female ( FSCA). Highlands Co., Sebring , Highlands Hamm. St. Park , 15-IV-1970, W. W. Wirth, light trap, 1 female ( USNM). Jackson Co. , Fla. Caverns St. Park , 26-V-1973, W. W. Wirth, light trap, 3 females, 6 males ; same data except 24 April 1981, 2 females ( USNM). Leon Co., Tallahassee , May 1970, F. S. Blanton, LT, 1 female ( USNM). Liberty Co., Torreya St. Pk. , 20-V-1966, H. V. Weems, 1 female ; same data except 22 April 1967, 1 male ( 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.

Malloch, J. R. 1914 c. Synopsis of North American species of the genus Bezzia (Chironomidae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 22: 281 - 285.

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. 1951. New species and records of Virginia Heleidae (Diptera). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 53: 313 - 326.

Abbreviations

USNM	Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History
FSCA	Florida State Collection of Arthropods, The Museum of Entomology
V	Royal British Columbia Museum - Herbarium