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Dasyhelea pollex Borkent and Forster, 1986: 1286

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Dasyhelea pollex Borkent and Forster

Dasyhelea pollex Borkent and Forster, 1986: 1286 (Bahamas); Borkent and Grogan 2009: 11 (in Nearctic catalog; distribution).

Discussion. This species was described by Borkent and Forster (1986) in their revision of the Nearctic species in the fasciigera group based on four males: the holotype and paratype from San Salvador Island, Bahamas (CNCI); a paratype from Big Pine Key, Monroe Co., Florida (USNM); and, a paratype from Baja California, Mexico (USNM).

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 pages 23-24, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5352908

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References

  • Borkent, A., and L. Forster. 1986. Review of the Dasyhelea fasciigera species group (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) with a revision of the Nearctic species. Canadian Journal of Zoology 64: 1280 - 1287.
  • Borkent, A., and W. L. Grogan, Jr. 2009. Catalog of the New World biting midges north of Mexico (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Zootaxa 2273: 1 - 48.