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New records of biting and predaceous midges from Florida, including species new to the fauna of the United States (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)

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William L. Grogan, Jr., Hribar, Lawrence J., Murphree, C. Steven, Cilek, James E. (2010): New records of biting and predaceous midges from Florida, including species new to the fauna of the United States (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Insecta Mundi 2010 (147): 1-59, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5352908

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  • Wirth, W. W. 1983b. The North American predaceous midges of the Bezzia bicolor group (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Florida Entomologist 66: 292-310.
  • Wirth, W. W. 1983c. A review of the American predaceous midges of the Bezzia nobilis group (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 85: 670-685.
  • Wirth, W. W. 1990. Biting midges of the subgenus Schizoforcipomyia of Forcipomyia in North America (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Florida Entomologist 73: 649-655.
  • Wirth, W. W. 1991. The predaceous midge genus Allohelea Kieffer in the western hemisphere (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Florida Entomologist 74: 491-505.
  • Wirth, W. W. 1994a. The subgenus Atrichopogon (Lophomyidium) with a revision of the Nearctic species (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Insecta Mundi 8: 17-36.
  • Wirth, W. W. 1994b. The western hemisphere species of the predaceous midge genus Echinohelea, with descriptions of six new species (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Insecta Mundi 8: 227-242.
  • Wirth, W. W. 1994c. New species and records of predaceous midges of the genus Probezzia from Florida and Alabama (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Florida Entomologist 77: 136-145.
  • Wirth, W. W., and F. S. Blanton. 1966. A new day-biting sand fly from the southeastern States (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae). Florida Entomologist 49: 279-281.
  • Wirth, W. W., and F. S. Blanton. 1970. Notes on Brachypogon Kieffer (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae), a new species, and two new Neotropical genera of the tribe Ceratopogonini. Florida Entomologist 53: 93- 104.
  • Wirth, W. W., and F. S. Blanton. 1974. A new Florida sand fly closely related to Culicoides haematopotus Malloch (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Florida Entomologist 57: 23-26.
  • Wirth, W. W., A. L. Dyce, and B. V. Peterson. 1985. An atlas of wing photographs, with a summary of the numerical characters of the Nearctic species of Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Contributions of the American Entomological Institute 22: 1-46.
  • Wirth, W. W., and W. L. Grogan, Jr. 1977. Taxonomic notes on the genus Heteromyia Say, and a new species from Nicaragua (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Florida Entomologist 60: 177-185.
  • Wirth, W. W., and W. L. Grogan, Jr. 1979. Natural History of Plummers Island, Maryland. XXIV. Biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). 2. The species of the tribes Heteromyiini and Sphaeromiini. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 91: 847-903.
  • Wirth, W. W., and W. L. Grogan, Jr. 1981. Natural History of Plummers Island, Maryland. XXV. Biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). 3. The species of the tribe Stilobezziini. Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington 5: 1-102.
  • Wirth, W. W., and W. L. Grogan, Jr. 1988. The predaceous midges of the world (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae; Tribe Ceratopogonini). Flora and Fauna Handbook. E. J. Brill; New York. 4: i-xv + 1-160.
  • Wirth, W. W., and A. A. Hubert. 1962. The species of Culicoides related to piliferus Root and Hoffman in eastern North America (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 55: 182-195.
  • Wirth, W. W., and R. H. Jones. 1957. The North American subspecies of C ulicoides variipennis (Diptera, Heleidae). United States Department of Agriculture Technical Bulletin 1170: 1-35.
  • Wirth, W. W., and N. Marston. 1968. A method for mounting small insects on microscope slides in Canada balsam. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 61: 783-784.
  • Wirth, W. W., and D. H. Messersmith. 1971. Studies on the genus Forcipomyia. I. The North American parasitic midges of the subgenus Trichohelea (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 64: 15-26.
  • Wirth, W. W., S. M. Palchick, and L. Forster. 1984. The North American predaceous midges of the Bezzia annulipes group (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 86: 155-175.
  • Wirth, W. W., and N. C. Ratanaworabhan. 1971. Ceratoculicoides, a new genus related to Ceratopogon Meigen (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 73: 170- 177.
  • Wirth, W. W., and N. C. Ratanaworabhan. 1978. Studies on the genus Forcipomyia. Key to subgenera and description of a new subgenus related to Euprojoannisia Brethes (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 80: 493-507.
  • Wirth, W. W., and G. R. Spinelli. 1992a. American predaceous midges of the subgenus Eukraiohelea of Stilobezzia (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Florida Entomologist 75: 342-349.
  • Wirth, W. W., and G. R. Spinelli. 1992b. Immature stages of Forcipomyia seminole Wirth and a related new Neotropical species (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Florida Entomologist 75: 349-356.
  • Wirth, W. W., and G. R. Spinelli. 1992c. Australasian Forcipomyia midge new to Florida (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Florida Entomologist 75: 599-600.
  • Wirth, W. W., and G. R. Spinelli. 1993a. The American species of the annulatipes group of the subgenus Lepidohelea, genus Forcipomyia (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Insecta Mundi 6 (1992): 109-125.
  • Wirth, W. W., and G. R. Spinelli. 1993b. The North American species of the Forcipomyia (Lepidohelea) bicolor subgroup (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 95: 611-634.
  • Wirth, W. W., and R. W. Williams. 1957. The biting midges of the Bermuda Islands, with descriptions of five new species (Diptera, Heleidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 59: 5- 14.
  • Wirth, W. W., and R. W. Williams. 1964. New species and records of North American Monohelea (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 57: 302-310.
  • Wolcott, G. N. 1923. Insectae Portoricensis. Journal of the Department of Agriculture of Porto Rico 7: 1- 312.