Forcipomyia (Lasiohelea) cornuta Saunders, 1964

Spinelli, Gustavo R., 2017, A distinctive new species of biting midge in the subgenus Euprojoannisia Brèthes from Mexico with new records of Neotropical species of Forcipomyia Meigen (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), Zootaxa 4329 (2), pp. 189-195 : 193

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4329.2.6
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6024038
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scientific name	Forcipomyia (Lasiohelea) cornuta Saunders
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Forcipomyia (Lasiohelea) cornuta Saunders View in CoL

Forcipomyia (Lasiohelea) cornuta Saunders, 1964: 464 View in CoL . Costa Rica, Trinidad, Brazil. (all stages; figures larva, larval head, posterior aspect of larval body, prothoracic pseudopod, pupa, pupal respiratory organ, antenna, palpus, spermatheca, wing, male genitalia); wirth 1974: 7 (in New world catalogue south of the USA); Aitken et al 1975: 108 ( Trinidad records); Borkent & wirth 1997: 39 (in world catalogue); Borkent & Spinelli 2000: 16 (in New world catalogue south of the USA); Borkent & Spinelli 2007: 52 (in Neotropical catalogue; Borkent 2016: 44 (in online world catalogue).

Material examined. MEXICO, Veracruz, Municipio Emiliano Carranza, Locality Vega de Alatorre, CDC light trap, 15̄Maȳ2010, Brigada Entomológica, Coll., 1 male (slide) . New Mexico record.

Diagnosis. Male: gonocoxite basally bearing small, sinuous, foliaceous process; aedeagus with four anterolateral process strong, horns-shaped. Female with third palpal segment short and swollen; spermatheca subspherical; other characteristic undiagnosable.

Distribution. Forcipomyia (L.) cornuta is distributed in Costa Rica, Trinidad and Brazil (São Paulo). We provide the first record from Mexico.