Forcipomyia (Lasiohelea) fairfaxensis Wirth, 1965

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 : 13

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scientific name	Forcipomyia (Lasiohelea) fairfaxensis Wirth
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Forcipomyia (Lasiohelea) fairfaxensis Wirth View in CoL

Forcipomyia (Euforcipomyia) fairfaxensis Wirth, 1951: 317 (Virginia) View in CoL .

Forcipomyia (Lasiohelea) fairfaxensis: Wirth 1965: 124 View in CoL (in Nearctic catalog); Wilkening et al. 1985: 516 (Florida records); Borkent and Grogan 2009: 8 (in Nearctic catalog; distribution).

Discussion. The only species of the subgenus Lasiohelea Kieffer in the Nearctic region, this common eastern species obtains blood meals from frogs. Wilkening et al. (1985) listed it from Alachua, Gulf, Highlands, Monroe and Orange counties in Florida. Porch et al. (1992) recorded a specimen taken from a sundew ( Drosera sp. ) “…in a stream terrace bog along Pittman Creek” in Santa Rosa Co., which is the first record from this county that we list below. We also provide the first records from Highlands and St. Lucie counties.

New records. Highlands Co., Lake Placid, Archbold Biological Station , 9-11-IX-1989, W. W. Wirth, Malaise trap, 2 females, 2 males (P) ; same data except Price tract, 1-IV-1990, 4 females (P) ; same data except IX-1990, 1 female (P) ( FSCA). Santa Rosa Co., Pittman Creek , 19 Oct. 1986, S. S. Porch, 1 female ( AUCI). St. Lucie Co. (no locality given), 15 Oct. 1986, R. Escher, 1 female ; same data except 24 Dec. 1986, 1 female ( FSCA) .