Probezzia meadi Wirth, 1994

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 : 46

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5352908

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5450836

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scientific name

Probezzia meadi Wirth
status

 

Probezzia meadi Wirth View in CoL

Probezzia meadi Wirth, 1994c: 143 (Florida) View in CoL ; Borkent and Grogan 2009: 25 (in Nearctic catalog; distribution).

Discussion. This recently described species is known only from females collected in Tallapoosa Co., Alabama and the Florida panhandle in Escambia, Jackson (holotype), Leon and Santa Rosa counties ( Wirth 1994c). We examined 11 paratypes in the FSCA.

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. 1994 c. New species and records of predaceous midges of the genus Probezzia from Florida and Alabama (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Florida Entomologist 77: 136 - 145.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Ceratopogonidae

Genus

Probezzia