Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to site footer
Responsive image
Issue: Vol. 4324 No. 3: 28 Sept. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-09-27
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4324.3.9
Page range: 557–570
Abstract views: 107
PDF downloaded: 1

Contributions to the knowledge of predaceous midges of the subgenus Eukraiohelea Ingram & Macfie of Stilobezzia Kieffer (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), from Brazil

División Entomología, Museo de La Plata, Paseo del Bosque s/n, B1900FWA La Plata, Argentina and Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Argentina.
Coleção de Ceratopogonidae, Laboratório de Diptera, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Av. Brasil 4365, Manguinhos, 21040-900 Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
Coleção de Ceratopogonidae, Laboratório de Diptera, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Av. Brasil 4365, Manguinhos, 21040-900 Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
Diptera Ceratopogoninae Ceratopogonini taxonomy new species Río de Janeiro

Abstract

Two new species of predaceous midges of the subgenus Eukraiohelea Ingram & Macfie of Stilobezzia Kieffer are described and illustrated: Stilobezzia (Eukraiohelea) proxima n. sp. and S. (E.) quasielegantula n. sp. The previously known New World species, Stilobezzia (E.) elegantula (Johannsen) is redescribed and illustrated. The species are illustrated through photomicrographs from adult males and females collected in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro. A key to adults of the five American species of Stilobezzia (Eukraiohelea) is also provided.

 

References

  1. Borkent, A. (2016) World species of biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Available from: http://wwx.inhs.illinois.edu/files/1114/2384/5200/CeratopogonidaeCatalog.pdf (accessed 9 August 2017)

    Borkent, A. & Grogan, W. (2009) Catalog of the New World Biting Midges North of Mexico (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Zootaxa, 2273, 1–48.

    Borkent, A. & Spinelli, G.R. (2007) Neotropical Ceratopogonidae (Diptera: Insecta). In: Adis, J., Arias, J.R., Rueda-Delgado, G. & Wantzen, K.M. (Eds.), Aquatic Biodiversity in Latin America (ABLA). Vol. 4. Pensoft, Sofia-Moscow, pp. 1–198.

    Borkent, A., Spinelli, G.R. & Grogan, W.L. (2009) Ceratopogonidae (biting midges, purrujas). In: Brown, B.V., Borkent A., Cumming J.M., Wood, D.M., Woodley, N.E. & Zumbado, M.A. (Eds.), Manual of Central America Diptera. Vol. 1. NRC Research Press, Ottawa, Ontario, pp. 407–435.

    Grogan, W.L., Hribar, L.J., Murphree, C.S. & Cilek, J.E. (2010) New records of biting and predaceous midges from Florida, including species new to the fauna of the United States (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Insecta Mundi, 0147, 1–59.

    Johannsen, O.A. (1907) Some new species of Kansas Chironomidae. In: Tucker, E.S., Some results of desultory collecting of insects in Kansas and Colorado. Bulletin of the University of Kansas, Science Bulletin, 1907, pp. 109–112.

    Johannsen, O.A. (1934) New species of North American Ceratopogonidae and Chironomidae. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 42, 343–352.

    Johannsen, O.A. (1943) Two new species of American Ceratopogonidae (Diptera). Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 36, 761–762.

    https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/36.4.761

    Kieffer, J.J. (1917) Chironomides d’Amérique conservés au Musée National Hongrois de Budapest. Annales historico-naturales Musei nationalis hungarici, 15, 175–228.

    Lane, J. & Forattini, O.P. (1956) Neotropical Stilobezzia Kieffer, 1911 I. Nine new Panamanian species (Diptera, Nematocera, Ceratopogonidae). Revista Brasileira de Malariologia, 8, 207–226.

    Lane, J. & Forattini, O.P. (1961) Neotropical Stilobezzia, 1911 III. Key for the adults of this genus and description of one new species (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomología, 10, 83–94.

    Malloch, J.R. (1914) Synopsis of the genus Probezzia, with description of a new species. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 27, 137–140.

    Malloch, J.R. (1915) The Chironomidae, or midges, of Illinois, with particular reference to the species occurring in the Illinois river. Bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History, 10, 275–543.

    Santarém, M.C.A. & Felippe-Bauer, M.L. (2017) Brazilian species of biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Available from: http://www.fiocruz.br/ioc/media/especies_maruins_brasil_2017_publicacoes.pdf (accessed 19 May 2017)

    Spinelli, G.R. & Cazorla, C.G. (2005) The subgenus Stilobezzia (Eukraiohelea) in Argentina and Paraguay (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina, 64 (3), 72–74.

    Torreias S.R.S., Ferreira-Keppler, R.L. & Ronderos, M.M. (2014) Biting midges (Ceratopogonidae: Diptera) present in aquatic macrophytes from wetlands of Marchantaria Island, Iranduba, Central Amazonia, Brazil. Journal of Natural History, 48 (1–2), 109–122.
    https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2013.791934

    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

    Wirth, W.W. (1953) Biting midges of the heleid genus Stilobezzia in North America. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 103, 57–58.

    https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00963801.103-3316.57

    Wirth, W.W. (1974) Family Ceratopogonidae. In: A catalog of the Diptera of the American south of the United States, Fasc. 14, pp. 1–89.

    Wirth, W.W. & Grogan, W.L. (1981) Natural History of Plummers Island, Maryland XXV. Biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). 3. The species of the tribe Stilobezziini. Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington, 5, 1–102.

    Wirth, W.W. & Marston, N. (1968) A method for mounting small insects on microscope slides in Canada balsam. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 61, 783–784.
    https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/61.3.783

    Wirth, W.W. & Spinelli, G.R. (1992) American predaceous midges of the subgenus Eukraiohelea of Stilobezzia (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Florida Entomologist, 75, 342–349.
    https://doi.org/10.2307/3495855