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Culicoides (Silvaticulicoides) mulrennani Beck 1957

Description

Culicoides (Silvaticulicoides) mulrennani Beck

Culicoides mulrennani Beck, 1957: 103 (Florida).

Culicoides (Drymodesmyia) mulrenani: Vargas 1960: 40 (mulrennani sic).

Culicoides (Oecacta) mulrennani: Wirth 1965: 129 (in Nearctic catalog).

Culicoides (Silvaticulicoides) mulrennani: Borkent and Grogan 2009: 15 (in Nearctic catalog; distribution).

Discussion. Wilkening et al. (1985) only listed this eastern species from the Florida panhandle in Escambia, Gulf, Jackson, Liberty and Taylor counties. We provide the first records from Bay Co.

New records. Bay Co., Callaway, Plantation Drive, 5-May-3 December 2002, C. F. Hallmon, CO 2 baited CDC light trap, 3 females (FAMC; WLGC).

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 29, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5352908

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
FAMC, WLGC
Event date
2002-05-05
Family
Ceratopogonidae
Genus
Culicoides
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Diptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Beck
Species
mulrennani
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
2002-05-05/12-03
Taxonomic concept label
Culicoides (Silvaticulicoides) mulrennani Beck, 1957 sec. Grogan, Hribar, Murphree & Cilek, 2010

References

  • Beck, E. C. 1957. Two new species of Culicoides from Florida (Diptera: Heleidae). Florida Entomologist 40: 103 - 105.
  • Vargas, L. 1960. The subgenera of Culicoides of the Americas (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae). Revista de Biologia Tropical 8: 35 - 47.
  • Wirth, W. W. 1965. Family Ceratopogonidae. p. 121 - 142. In: A. Stone, C. W. Sabrosky, W. W. Wirth, R. H. Foote, J. R. Coulson (eds.). A catalog of the Diptera of America north of Mexico. United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Agriculture Handbook 276: i-iv + 1 - 1696.
  • Borkent, A., and W. L. Grogan, Jr. 2009. Catalog of the New World biting midges north of Mexico (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Zootaxa 2273: 1 - 48.
  • 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.