Stilobezzia ( Stilobezzia ) diversa (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 : 40

Stilobezzia ( Stilobezzia) diversa (Coquillett)

Ceratopogon diversus Coquillett, 1901: 607 ( New Jersey).

Ceratolophus diversus: Kieffer 1906: 60 (combination).

Johannseniella diversa: Malloch 1914b: 227 (combination).

Hartomyia diversa: Malloch 1915a: 344 (combination).

Stilobezzia diversa: Johannsen 1943: 781 (combination).

Stilobezzia ( Stilobezzia) diversa: Wirth 1953a: 76 (revision of Nearctic Stilobezzia ); Wilkening et al. 1985: 526 ( Florida records); Borkent and Grogan 2009: 22 (in Nearctic catalog; distribution).

Discussion. This rarely collected eastern species was known only in Florida from Alachua Co. ( Wilkening et al. 1985). We provide the first records from Liberty Co.

New records. Liberty Co., Torreya St. Park, 10-IV-1957, F. S. Blanton, 1 male, 1 female (FSCA).