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Catalog of the New World Biting Midges North of Mexico (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)

Research Associate, Royal British Columbia Museum, American Museum of Natural History, and Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INBio), Costa Rica 691-8th Ave. SE, Salmon Arm, British Columbia, V1E 2C2, Canada
Research Associate, Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Florida Dept. of Agriculture and Consumer Services, 1911 SW 34th Street, Gainesville, FL 32614-7100, USA
Diptera Ceratopogonidae biting midges catalog Nearctic distribution

Abstract

This catalog of the biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) of the New World north of Mexico includes 603 species and 39 genera. The full citation, province or state of the type locality and distribution by province and/or state of each species is given. The most recent revision for each genus, subgenus and species group is cited.

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    Wirth, W.W. and Blanton, F.S. (1970) Notes on Brachypogon Kieffer (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae), a new species, and two new Neotropical genera of the tribe Ceratopogonini. Florida Entomologist, 53, 93–104.

    Wirth, W.W. and Blanton, F.S. (1971a) New Neotropical sandflies of the Culicoides debilipalpis group (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 73, 34–43.

    Wirth, W.W. and Blanton, F.S. (1971b) New western Culicoides of the stonei group. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 44, 459–467.

    Wirth, W.W. and Blanton, F.S. (1971c) New species and synonymy of Florida Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Florida Entomologist, 54, 73–78.

    Wirth, W.W. and Blanton, F.S. (1974a) New synonymy and a correction in the Culicoides piliferus group (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Florida Entomologist, 57, 71–75.

    Wirth, W.W. and Blanton, F.S. (1974b) A new Florida sand fly closely related to Culicoides haematopotus Malloch (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Florida Entomologist, 57, 23–26.

    Wirth, W.W., Choudhuri, P.P. and Das Gupta, S.K. (1985) Descriptive notes and new Asian distribution in the chaetophthalmus group of the bloodsucking midge genus Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Oriental Insects, 19, 103–109.

    Wirth, W.W. and Dow, M.I. (1971) Studies on the genus Forcipomyia III. Blantonia, a new subgenus in theTrichohelea complex (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Florida Entomologist, 54, 289–295.

    Wirth, W.W., Dyce, A.L. and Peterson, B.V. (1985) An atlas of wing photographs, with a summary of the numerical characters of the Nearctic species of Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Contributions of the American Entomological Institute, 22(4), 1–46.

    Wirth, W.W. and Grogan, W.L. (1977) Taxonomic notes on the genus Heteromyia Say, and a new species from Nicaragua (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Florida Entomologist, 60, 177–185.

    Wirth, W.W. and Grogan, W.L. (1979) Natural history of Plummers Island, Maryland. XXIV. Biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). 2. The species of the tribes Heteromyiini and Sphaeromiini. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 91, 847–903.

    Wirth, W.W. and 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. and Grogan, W.L. (1982) The predaceous midges of the genus Phaenobezzia in North America (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Washington, 10, 179–192.

    Wirth, W.W. and Grogan, W.L. (1983) The Nearctic species of the Bezzia bivittata group (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 96, 489–523.

    Wirth, W.W. and Grogan, W.L. (1988) The predaceous midges of the world (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae; Tribe Ceratopogonini). Flora and Fauna Handbook 4, xv + 160 pp., E.J. BriIl.

    Wirth, W.W. and Hubert, A.A. (1960) Ceratopogonidae (Diptera) reared from cacti, with a review of the copiosus group of Culicoides. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 53, 639–658.

    Wirth, W.W. and Hubert, A.A. (1962) The species of Culicoides related to piliferus Root and Hoffman in eastern North America (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 55, 182–195.

    Wirth, W.W. and Jones, R.H. (1956) Three new North American species of tree-hole Culicoides (Diptera, Heleidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 58, 161–168.

    Wirth, W.W. and Jones, R.H. (1957) The North American subspecies of Culicoides variipennis (Diptera, Heleidae). United States Department of Agriculture Technical Bulletin, 1170, iii + 35 pp.

    Wirth, W.W. and Linley, J.R. (1990) Description of Dasyhelea chani new species (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from leaves of the water lettuce (Pistia stratiotes) in Floirda (sic). Florida Entomologist, 73, 273–279.

    Wirth, W.W. and Messersmith, D.H. (1971) Studies on the genus Forcipomyia. 1. The North American parasitic midges of the subgenus Trichohelea (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 64, 15–26.

    Wirth, W.W. and de Moraes, A.P.A. (1979) New records and new species of biting midges from salt marshes in California and Mexico (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Pan-Pacific Entomologist, 55, 287–298.

    Wirth, W.W. and Mullens, B.A. (1992) Culicoides boydi (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae): a potential vector of Hemorrhagic Disease Viruses to Desert Bighorn Sheep in southern California. Journal of Medical Entomology, 29, 1006–1010.

    Wirth, W.W., Palchick, S.M., and Forster, L. (1984) The North American predaceous midges of the Bezzia annulipes group (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 86, 155–175.

    Wirth, W.W. and Ratanaworabhan, N.C. (1971a) Ceratoculicoides, a new genus related to Ceratopogon Meigen (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 73, 170–177.

    Wirth, W.W. and Ratanaworabhan, N.C. (1971b) Notes on Neotropical Pellucidomyia (Diptera