Dasyhelea flava Carter, Ingram & Macfie

Dominiak, Patrycja & Alwin, Alicja, 2013, Five new species and new records of biting midges of the genus Dasyhelea Kieffer from the Near East (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), Zootaxa 3683 (2), pp. 133-144 : 136

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3683.2.3
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:1CDD7727-E1BF-4C46-B8FD-A13522FFC698
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4499952
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scientific name	Dasyhelea flava Carter, Ingram & Macfie
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Dasyhelea flava Carter, Ingram & Macfie View in CoL

Dasyhelea flava Carter, Ingram & Macfie, 1921: 196 ( Ghana) View in CoL .

Material examined. Lebanon. Damour River, N 33° 42.369 E 35°27.637, 48 m asl, 26.X.2012, net, 1 male, leg. P. Dominiak (UG). Near Ras el-Ain, Tyre, N 33˚ 12.927 E 35˚13.056, 5 m asl, 06.V.2012, banana plantation, net, 1 male, leg. A. Alwin (UG). Ras el-Ain, Tyre, avocado plantation, 15.IX–20.X.2012, yellow sticky trap, 2 males, leg. H. Abdul-Nour (UG); citrus plantation, 15.IX–20.X.2012, yellow sticky trap, 20 males, leg. H. Abdul-Nour (LU & UG).

Distribution. Gambia ( Clastrier & Wirth 1961), Ghana ( Carter et al. 1921), South Africa ( de Meillon & Wirth 1981), Israel ( Dominiak et al. 2007), Yemen, Oman ( Boorman & van Harten 2002), the United Arab Emirates ( Szadziewski et al. 2011), and Réunion ( Clastrier 1959). The record from Ethiopia ( de Meillon & Wirth 1981) is doubtful. This species is new for the Lebanese fauna.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Diptera
Family	Ceratopogonidae
Genus	Dasyhelea
SubGenus	Prokempia