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Culicoides (Amossovia) villosipennis Root and Hoffman

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Culicoides (Amossovia) villosipennis Root and Hoffman

Culicoides villosipennis Root and Hoffman, 1937: 165 (Maryland).

Culicoides (Oecacta) villosipennis: Khalaf 1954: 37; Blanton and Wirth 1979: 169 (Florida records); Wilkening et al. 1985: 522 (Florida records).

Culicoides (Glaphiromyia) villosipennis: Vargas 1960: 41.

Culicoides (Amossovia) villosipennis: Borkent and Grogan 2009: 12 (in Nearctic catalog; distribution).

Discussion. Wilkening et al. (1985) listed this eastern species from nine Florida counties. We provide the first records from Wakulla Co.

New records. Wakulla Co., Wakulla Springs State Park, Lodge Road, 25 May 2004, S. Murphree, CDC light trap with UV wand, 1 male, 2 females; same data except Swamp on Lodge Rd., 25-26-V-2004, CDC LT, 2 females (BUTC; 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 25, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5352908

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Biodiversity

Collection code
BUTC, WLGC , UV
Event date
2004-05-25
Family
Ceratopogonidae
Genus
Culicoides
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Diptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Root and Hoffman
Species
villosipennis
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
2004-05-25 , 2004-05-25/26

References

  • Root, F. M., and W. A. Hoffman. 1937. The North American species of Culicoides. American Journal of Hygiene 25: 150 - 176.
  • Khalaf, K. T. 1954. The speciation of the genus Culicoides (Diptera, Heleidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 47: 34 - 51.
  • 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.
  • Vargas, L. 1960. The subgenera of Culicoides of the Americas (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae). Revista de Biologia Tropical 8: 35 - 47.
  • Borkent, A., and W. L. Grogan, Jr. 2009. Catalog of the New World biting midges north of Mexico (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Zootaxa 2273: 1 - 48.