Dasyhelea flavifrons Guerin-Meneville
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Dasyhelea flavifrons (Guérin-Méneville)
Ceratopogon flavifrons Guérin-Méneville, 1833: 165 (France).
Dasyhelea flavifrons: Kieffer 1919: 51 (combination); Szadziewski & Dominiak 2006: 142 (in review of European synonyms in Ceratopogonidae); Borkent & Grogan 2009: 11 (in Nearctic catalog; distribution); Borkent, 2016: 65 (in online World catalog).
Dasyhelea oppressa Thomsen, 1935: 285 (New York); Wirth 1965: 127 (in Nearctic catalog; distribution); Waugh & Wirth 1976: 230 (in revision of eastern USA Dasyhelea; distribution); Wilkening et al. 1985: 519 (Florida county records); Hribar & Grogan 2005: 231 (records from Monroe County, Florida); Szadziewski & Dominiak 2006: 142 [as synonym of D. flavifrons (Guérin-Méneville)]; Borkent & Grogan 2009: 11 (in Nearctic catalog; distribution; as synonym of D. flavifrons); Grogan et al. 2016: 208 (Guadeloupe records).
Diagnosis. The only Neotropical species of the grisea group with the following combination of characters. Males with slender, distally recurved asymmetrical gonocoxal apodemes; paramere usually fused with right apodeme, the distal portion elongate, curved, apex usually bent ventrolaterally, tip pointed; gonocoxite with or without small basomesal spur; gonostylus straight to slightly curved, surface pubescent except for apex, tip rounded or pointed; aedeagus with heavily sclerotized basal portion and tapered posterolateral arms; and tergite 9 elongate, tapered distally with moderately narrow straight posterior margin and long cylindrical apicolateral processes. Females with subgenital plate bearing a pair of basolateral pointed projections and distal portion more or less arrowhead-shaped; and spermatheca subspherical with long neck region that is often recurved, retort-like.
Discussion. This common Holarctic species was previously known in North America as D. oppressa Thomsen. Szadziewski & Dominiak (2006) regarded D. oppressa as a junior synonym of D. flavifrons and they listed 11 other specific synonyms in the Palearctic region. Dasyhelea flavifrons was recently recorded from the Neotropics in the Caribbean region from Guadeloupe (Grogan et al. 2016). We provide the first records of D. flavifrons from Curaçao.
Material examined. CURAÇAO, Christoffel, Nat. Pk., Weg Narr, Playa Kanoa, 12°9ʹ7.82ʹʹ N, 68°52ʹ9.13ʹʹ W, 10-XI-2014, M. C. Thomas, blacklight trap, 1 female; same data except Weg Naar, Playa Kanoa nr. cement Plant, 6-XII-2015, 1 female; same data except Piscadera, 0.5 km N of Carmbi, 12°7ʹ36.88ʹʹ N, 69°58ʹ14ʹʹ W, 6-XI-2014, 1 female; same data except Piscadera Baai, 5-XII-2015, Blacklight trap in mangroves, 4 females; same data except Christoffel Nat. Pk., 12°20ʹ40.29ʹʹ N, 69°06ʹ29.59ʹʹ W, 9-X 1I-2015, R. Turnbow, Thorn scrub area, 13-XI- 2014,1 female. New Curaçao record.
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Biodiversity
- Event date
- 2014-11-06 , 2014-11-10 , 2015-12-05 , 2015-12-06
- Verbatim event date
- 2014-11-06 , 2014-11-10 , 2015-12-05 , 2015-12-06
- Scientific name authorship
- Guerin-Meneville
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Diptera
- Family
- Ceratopogonidae
- Genus
- Dasyhelea
- Species
- flavifrons
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Dasyhelea flavifrons (Guerin-Meneville, 1833) sec. Grogan, Díaz, Spinelli & Ronderos, 2019
References
- Guerin-Meneville, F. E. (1833) Notice sur les metamorphoses des Ceratopogons et description de deux especes nouvelles de ce genre, decouvertes aux environs de Paris. Annales de la Societe de Entomologique de France, 2, 161 - 167.
- Kieffer, J. J. (1919) Chironomides d'Europe conserves au Musee National Hongrois de Budapest. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici, 17, 1 - 160. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 29619
- Szadziewski, R. & Dominiak, P. (2006) New synonyms of European Ceratopogonidae (Diptera). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa, 56, 139 - 146.
- Borkent, A. & Grogan, W. L. Jr. (2009) Catalog of the New World Biting Midges North of Mexico (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Zootaxa, 2273 (1), 1 - 48. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 2273.1.1
- Borkent, A. (2016) World Species of Biting Midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Available from: http: // wwx. inhs. illinois. edu / files / 4514 / 6410 / 0252 / CeratopogonidaeCatalog. pdf (accessed 28 January 2019)
- Thomsen, L. (1935). New species of New York State Ceratopogonidae. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 43, 283 - 297.
- Wirth, W. W. (1965) Family Ceratopogonidae. In: Stone, A., Sabrosky, C. W., Wirth, W. W., Foote, R. H. & Coulson, J. R. (Eds.), A Catalog of the Diptera of America North of Mexico. United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Agriculture Handbook 276. U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., pp. 121 - 142.
- Wirth, W. W. & Waugh, W. T. (1976) Five new Neotropical Dasyhelea midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) associated with culture of Cocoa. Studia Entomologica, 19, 223 - 236.
- Wilkening, A. J., Kline, D. L. & Wirth, W. W. (1985) An annotated checklist of the Ceratopogonidae (Diptera) of Florida with a new synonymy. Florida Entomologist, 68, 511 - 537. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 3494854
- Hribar, L. J. & Grogan, W. L. Jr. (2005) New records of biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) and frog-biting midges (Diptera: Corethrellidae) from the Florida Keys. Florida Scientist, 68, 227 - 235.
- Grogan, W. L. Jr., Diaz, F., Spinelli, G. R. & Ronderos, M. M. (2016) The biting and predaceous midges of Guadeloupe (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). II. Species of the subfamily Dasyheleinae. Zootaxa, 4184 (2), 201 - 254.