Dasyhelea guadeloupensis Delécolle & Rieb

Grogan, Willliam L., Díaz, Florentina, Spinelli, Gustavo R. & Ronderos, Maria M., 2016, The biting and predaceous midges of Guadeloupe (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). II. Species of the subfamily Dasyheleinae, Zootaxa 4184 (2), pp. 201-254 : 234-235

Dasyhelea guadeloupensis Delécolle & Rieb

Dasyhelea guadeloupensis Delécolle & Rieb, 1994: 272 (Guadeloupe) ; Borkent & Spinelli 2000: 25 (in New World catalog south of the United States; distribution); Borkent & Spinelli 2007: 60 (in Neotropical catalog; distribution).

Diagnosis. A small species that differs from other Neotropical species in the mutabilis group by the following combination of characters: Male with short palpal segment 3 (palpal ratio 3.00); sternite 9 with an elongate convex posteromedian projection with triangular posterolateral lobes; gonocoxite moderately long with proximal portion slender and distal portion with broad elongate subapical lobe; gonostylus long, slender, slightly curved with rounded apex; aedeagus heavily sclerotized with crescent-shaped basal arch and moderately long, curved, widely separated posterolateral arms with medially directed apices; and gonocoxal apodemes and paramere asymmetrical with rod-like paramere that extends just below apices of aedeagal posterolateral arms. Females with circular subgenital plate with very broad anterior portion and a small (length 44 µm) spherical spermatheca with a slender retort-shaped neck.

Discussion. Delécolle & Rieb (1994) described this species from four males and three females collected by colored light trap during March 1993 from Petit Bourg , Guadeloupe . However, we did not find any specimens of this species in our material from Basse Terre, Guadeloupe.