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Issue: Vol. 4329 No. 2: 4 Oct. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-10-03
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4329.2.6
Page range: 189–195
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A distinctive new species of biting midge in the subgenus Euprojoannisia Brèthes from Mexico with new records of Neotropical species of Forcipomyia Meigen (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)

1Laboratorio de Entomología, InDRE, Francisco de P. Miranda No 177, Col. Unidad Lomas de Plateros, Del. A. Obregón, CP. 01480, Ciudad de México, México.
ILPLA−CONICET, UNLP−División Entomología, Museo de La Plata, Boulevard 120 S/N e/61 y 62 La Plata—Buenos Aires—Argentina.
Diptera Forcipomyiinae biting flies taxonomy distribution

Abstract

A new species of biting midge, Forcipomyia (Euprojoannisia) bibaana, is described and illustrated from an adult male collected in the state Oaxaca, Mexico. The first records of Forcipomyia (E.) mortuifolii Saunders, F. (Lasiohelea) cornuta Saunders and F. (L.) stylifer (Lutz) are provided from Mexico as well as the first record of F. (L.) anitae Huerta & Ibáñez-Bernal from Guatemala.

 

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