Monohelea maculipennis ( Coquillett), 1905

Felippe-Bauer, Maria Luiza, Cardoso, Erick Aragão & Trindade, Rosimeire Lopes Da, 2017, New species and new records of Monohelea Kieffer from eastern Amazon, Brazil (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), Zootaxa 4358 (1) : -

Monohelea maculipennis ( Coquillett), 1905

Ceratopogon maculipennis Coquillett, 1905: 64 (female, Fla.)

Monohelea maculipennis: Kieffer, 1917: 312 ; Wirth, 1953: 140 (redescr.; Mexico, Guatemala, Panama records; figs. wing, female hind leg, male genitalia; discus.); Lane & Wirth, 1964: 227 (distrib.; USA, Bahamas, Ecuador records; figs. female hind leg, parameres; dimorphism); Wirth & Williams, 1964: 308 (distrib.; fig. parameres; dimorphism); Wirth & Grogan, 1988: 69 (type locality); Felippe-Bauer, 1998: 228 ( Brazil records); Borkent & Spinelli, 2000: 50 (in catalog); Borkent & Spinelli, 2007: 83 (in catalog); Borkent, 2016: 130 (in catalog); Santarém & Felippe-Bauer, 2017: 17 (in Brazilian catalog).

Distribution. USA (Florida, Louisiana), Mexico (Tamaulipas, Yucatan), Guatemala, Panama, Bahamas and Brazil (Rio de Janeiro, Pará State).

New records (Fig, 1). BRAZIL, Pará State, Viseu Municipality , Vila de Curupaiti (01°25’56”S, 46°28’16”W), 20–21.VI.2007, 3 males, 9 females, Trindade R.L. & Guimarães, D. cols, CDC light trap (1 male, 7 females – MPEG; 2 males, 2 females - CCER) ; Tracuateua Municipality, Vila de Santa Maria (01°01’45”S, 46°57’21”W), 27–28.II.2007, 4 males, 1 female, Gorayeb, I. & Guimarães, D. cols, CDC light trap, peridomicile ( MPEG) ; Capitão Poço Municipality , headquarters district (01°44’41”S, 47°03’17”W), 25–26.XI.2008, 2 male, 3 females, Trindade, R.L., Guimarães, D., Quaresma, A. & Pimentel, T. cols., CDC light trap, farmstead ( MPEG) .