Forcipomyia (Lepidohelea) pulcherrima Santos Abreu, 1918

El-Hawagry, Magdi S., El-Azab, Salah El-Din A., Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S. & Al Dhafer, Hathal M., 2020, Biting midges of Egypt (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), Biodiversity Data Journal 8, pp. 52357-52357 : 52357

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scientific name	Forcipomyia (Lepidohelea) pulcherrima Santos Abreu, 1918
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Forcipomyia (Lepidohelea) pulcherrima Santos Abreu, 1918 View in CoL

Forcipomyia pulcherrima Santos Abreu, 1918 [ Santos Abreu 1918: 272]. Type locality: Canary Islands (Spain).

Lepidohelea ornatipes Kieffer, 1921 [ Kieffer 1921a: 1], preoccupied by Forcipomyia ornatipes (Kieffer 1918a). Type locality: Cameroon.

Lepidohelea formosae Kieffer, 1922 [ Kieffer 1922a: 153]. Type locality: Taiwan.

Forcipomyia lepidota Ingram and Macfie, 1924 [ Ingram and Macfie 1924: 566]. Type locality: Ghana.

Forcipomyia variegata Goetghebuer, 1933 [ Goetghebuer 1933b: 133]. Type locality: Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Forcipomyia marsafae Ghonaim, Ibrahim and Ali, 2001 [ Ghonaim et al. 2001b: 42]. Type locality: Egypt (Qalyubiya: Marsafa).

Distribution

AF: Widely distributed. AU: Hawaii. NE: USA. OR: Widely distributed. PA: Canary Islands, Egypt, Israel, Japan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia.

Local distribution in Egypt: Lower Nile Valley & Delta: El-Badrasheen, El-Qanatir, Marsafa. Upper Nile Valley: Asswan, Luxor (El-Sammaneen), Sohag (El-Shewash).

Dates of collection in Egypt: September to April.

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