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Culicoides (Beltranmyia) mississippiensis Hoffman 1926

Description

Culicoides (Beltranmyia) mississippiensis Hoffman

Culicoides mississippiensis Hoffman, 1926: 158 (Mississippi).

Culicoides (Beltranmyia) mississippiensis: Vargas 1953: 34; Blanton and Wirth 1979: 119 (Florida records); Wilkening et al. 1985: 520 (Florida records); Borkent and Grogan 2009: 13 (in Nearctic catalog; distribution).

Discussion. This species inhabits coastal areas along the Gulf of Mexico from Florida to Texas and was listed by Wilkening et al. (1985) from 22 Florida counties including Wakulla Co. We provide additional records from Wakulla Co.

New records. Wakulla Co., Wakulla Springs State Park, spring 300 m E of Wakulla Spring, 25 May 2004, S. Murphree, NJ light trap, 1 female; same data except UV wand, 1 female (BUTC).

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 26, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5352908

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
UV, BUTC
Event date
2004-05-25
Verbatim event date
2004-05-25
Scientific name authorship
Hoffman
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Ceratopogonidae
Genus
Culicoides
Species
mississippiensis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Culicoides (Beltranmyia) mississippiensis Hoffman, 1926 sec. Grogan, Hribar, Murphree & Cilek, 2010

References

  • Vargas, L. 1953. Beltranmyia n. Subgen. de Culicoides (Insecta: Heleidae). Instituto de Salubridad y Enfermedades Tropicales 13: 33 - 36.
  • Blanton, F. S., and W. W. Wirth. 1979. The sand flies (Culicoides) of Florida (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Land Areas 10: 1 - 204.
  • 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.