Allohelea distortifemur Wirth, 1991

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 : 31

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5352908
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5450767
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scientific name	Allohelea distortifemur Wirth
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Allohelea distortifemur Wirth View in CoL

Allohelea distortifemur Wirth, 1991: 499 View in CoL (Florida; revision of New World Allohelea View in CoL ); Borkent and Grogan 2009: 18 (in Nearctic catalog; distribution).

Discussion. This distinctive, recently described species is known only from the type series (15 males, 21 females) collected by Dr. Wirth in St. Joseph State Park, Gulf Co., Florida.

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.

Wirth, W. W. 1991. The predaceous midge genus Allohelea Kieffer in the western hemisphere (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Florida Entomologist 74: 491 - 505.

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Taxonomy

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

Allohelea distortifemur Wirth

William L. Grogan, Jr., Hribar, Lawrence J., Murphree, C. Steven & Cilek, James E. 2010

2010

Allohelea distortifemur

Borkent, A. & W. L. Grogan, Jr. 2009: 18

Wirth, W. W. 1991: 499

1991

Specimens