Dasyhelea deemingi Boorman & Harten

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 : 137-138

Dasyhelea deemingi Boorman & Harten

Dasyhelea deemingi Boorman & Harten, 2002: 441 ( Oman) .

Dasyhelea labinoda Mazumdar & Chaudhuri, 2009 : ( India). Syn. nov.

Material examined. Yemen. Al Mukalla, N 14˚33' E 49˚08', I– II.2003, light trap, 1 male, leg. A. van Harten (UG); VII–VIII.2003, light trap, 5 males, leg. A. van Harten (UG).

Type material. Paratype male of D. labinoda , labeled as follows: Para Adult 3, Loc. Burdwan, West Bengal, 02.xi.1989, Coll. N. Saha, Dasyhelea labinoda Mazumdar & Chaudhuri.

Distribution. Up to now this species was mentioned from Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman ( Boorman & van Harten 2002), the United Arab Emirates ( Szadziewski et al. 2011) and India ( Mazumdar & Chaudhuri 2009). New record for Yemen.

Comments. After examination of the paratype male of Dasyhelea labinoda we consider there are no differences in the morphological characters between this species and D. deemingi . Szadziewski and co-authors ( Szadziewski et al. 2011) suggested that these two names are probably conspecific, and currently we propose to treat D. labinoda as a new junior synonym of D. deemingi . New synonymy.