Bezzia (Bezzia) nobilis (Winnertz)

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 : 48-49

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5352908
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5450852
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scientific name	Bezzia (Bezzia) nobilis (Winnertz)
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Bezzia (Bezzia) nobilis (Winnertz) View in CoL

Ceratopogon nobilis Winnertz, 1852: 79 (Europe) View in CoL .

Bezzia nobilis: Kieffer 1901: 153 View in CoL (combination).

Bezzia (Bezzia) nobilis: Wirth 1983c: 673 View in CoL (review of New World nobilis group); Wilkening et al. 1985: 530 (Florida records); Borkent and Grogan 2009: 26 (in Nearctic catalog; distribution).

Ceratopogon setulosus Loew, 1861: 312 View in CoL (Washington D.C.)

Ceratopogon barberi Coquillett, 1901: 601 (Maryland) View in CoL .

Bezzia atlantica Wirth and Williams, 1957: 13 ( Bermuda) View in CoL .

Discussion. This very common Holarctic and Neotropical species was listed by Wilkening et al. (1985) from 15 Florida counties including Wakulla Co. We provide additional records from that county.

New records. Wakulla Co., Wakulla Springs State Park, Lodge Road, 25 May 2004, S. Murphree, CDC light trap with UV wand, 1 male, 2 females (BUTC).

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.

Kieffer, J. J. 1901. Synopse des representants europeens du groupe Ceratopogon avec description de quelques especes nouvelles. Bulletin de la Naturelle de Metz 9: 143 - 165.

Loew, H. 1861. Diptera Americae septentrionalis indigena. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 5: 307 - 359.

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.

Winnertz, J. 1852. Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Gattung Ceratopogon Meigen. Linnaea Entomologica 6: 1 - 80.

Wirth, W. W., and R. W. Williams. 1957. The biting midges of the Bermuda Islands, with descriptions of five new species (Diptera, Heleidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 59: 5 - 14.

Wirth, W. W. 1983 c. A review of the American predaceous midges of the Bezzia nobilis group (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 85: 670 - 685.