Bezzia (Bezzia) expolita (Coquillett)

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.5450844
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scientific name	Bezzia (Bezzia) expolita (Coquillett)
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Bezzia (Bezzia) expolita (Coquillett) View in CoL

Ceratopogon expolitus Coquillett, 1901: 600 View in CoL (New Jersey).

Bezzia expolita: Kieffer 1906: 58 View in CoL (combination).

Pseudobezzia expolita: Malloch 1915a: 351 (combination).

Allobezzia expolita: Kieffer 1917: 328 (combination).

Bezzia (Pseudobezzia) expolita: Wirth 1951: 32 View in CoL ; Dow and Turner 1976: 32 (revision of Nearctic Bezzia Kieffer View in CoL ).

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

Ceratopogon johnsoni Coquillett, 1901: 600 View in CoL (New Jersey).

Discussion. In their review of Florida ceratopogonids, Wilkening et al. (1985) listed B. expolita , but, they noted that Florida records were not available for this species, and a study in progress by WLG confirms this. Therefore, we are deleting this species from the Florida ceratopogonid fauna. However, specimens collected by WLG and others in the USNM in the B. expolita complex include several undescribed species that will be addressed by a study in progress by WLG.

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.

Coquillett, D. W. 1901. New Diptera in the U. S. National Museum. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 23: 593 - 618.

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.

Kieffer, J. J. 1906. Diptera. Fam. Chironomidae. In: P. Wytsman (ed.). Genera Insectorum. Fasc. 42: 1 - 78, 4 pls.

Kieffer, J. J. 1917. Chironomides d'Amerique conserves au Musee National Hongrois de Budapest. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 15: 292 - 364.

Malloch, J. R. 1915 a. The Chironomidae, or midges, of Illinois, with particular reference to the species occurring in the Illinois River. Bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History 10: 275 - 543, 24 pl.

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.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Diptera
Family	Ceratopogonidae
Genus	Bezzia