Dasyhelea corinneae Gosseries, 1991

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), Insecta Mundi 2010 (147), pp. 1-59 : 22

Dasyhelea corinneae Gosseries

Ceratopogon scutellata Meigen, 1830: 262 (Europe; preoccupied by Say, 1829).

Dasyhelea scutellata: Kieffer 1919a: 50 (combination); Waugh and Wirth 1976: 236 (revision of eastern United States Dasyhelea ; distribution); Wilkening et al. 1985: 519 (Florida records).

Dasyhelea corinneae Gosseries, 1991: 42 (new name for C. scutellata Meigen ); Borkent and Grogan 2009: 11 (in Nearctic catalog; distribution).

Discussion. This common Holarctic species inhabits the eastern United States, and Wilkening et al. (1985) only recorded it (as D. scutellata ) in Florida from Liberty Co. and suggested that “Northern Florida apparently represents the southernmost limit of its range in North America.” Porch et al. (1992) recorded several specimens taken from sundews in Santa Rosa and Walton counties, which were the first records from these Florida counties that we relist below.

New records. Santa Rosa Co., Pittman Creek , 19 Oct. 1986, S. S. Porch, ex. Drosera sp. , 2 females ( AUCI). Walton Co., 20 May 1986, 13 Aug. 1986, 4 Sept. 1986, 1 female ( WLGC), 19 Oct. 1986, 1 female, 12 Apr. 1987, 3 females ( AUCI), 19 May 1987 (2 females AUCI; 1 female WLGC), S. S. Porch, ex. Drosera sp .