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Forcipomyia (Euprojoannisia) fuscicalcarata Bystrak and Wirth

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Forcipomyia (Euprojoannisia) fuscicalcarata Bystrak and Wirth

Forcipomyia (Euprojoannisia) fuscicalcarata Bystrak and Wirth, 1978: 23 (Florida); Wilkening et al. 1985: 515 (Florida records); Borkent and Grogan 2009: 7 (in Nearctic catalog).

Discussion. This species is known only from Florida in Alachua, Dade, Highlands, Lee, Leon, Monroe and Orange counties. We provide the first record from St. Lucie Co.

New records. St. Lucie Co. (no locality given), 5-VI-1987, R. L. Escher, CF-LT, 1 female (FSCA).

Notes

Published as part of 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), pp. 1-59 in Insecta Mundi 2010 (147) on page 10, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5352908

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Bystrak and Wirth
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Ceratopogonidae
Genus
Forcipomyia
Species
fuscicalcarata
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Bystrak, P. G., and W. W. Wirth. 1978. The North American species of Forcipomyia, subgenus Euprojoannisia (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). United States Department of Agriculture, Technical Bulletin 1591: 1 - 51.
  • Wilkening, A. J., D. L. Kline, and W. W. Wirth. 1985. An annotated checklist of the Ceratopogonidae (Diptera) of Florida with a new synonymy. Florida Entomologist 68: 511 - 537.
  • Borkent, A., and W. L. Grogan, Jr. 2009. Catalog of the New World biting midges north of Mexico (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Zootaxa 2273: 1 - 48.