Dasyhelea scissurae Macfie

Grogan, Willliam L., Díaz, Florentina, Spinelli, Gustavo R. & Ronderos, Maria M., 2016, The biting and predaceous midges of Guadeloupe (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). II. Species of the subfamily Dasyheleinae, Zootaxa 4184 (2), pp. 201-254 : 235

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4184.2.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:5A692B15-5A1F-45C7-AC36-FF155F5A4FB0

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5457198

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6E4ABE2F-FF8C-FFAE-30C3-757423A0A2BA

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Plazi

scientific name

Dasyhelea scissurae Macfie
status

 

Dasyhelea scissurae Macfie View in CoL

Dasyhelea scissurae Macfie, 1937: 15 (Trinidad) View in CoL ; Macfie 1953: 103 (redescribed; Costa Rica); Wirth 1974: 18 (in Catalog of New World species south of the USA; distribution); Borkent & Spinelli 2000: 26 (in Neotropical catalog; distribution); Borkent & Spinelli 2007: 61 (in Neotropical catalog; distribution); Borkent & Grogan 2009: 11 (in Nearctic catalog; distribution).

Dasyhelea koenigi Delécolle & Rieb, 1994: 267 (Guadeloupe) View in CoL ; Borkent & Spinelli 2000: 26 (in New World catalog south of the United States; distribution); Borkent & Spinelli 2007: 60 (in Neotropical catalog; distribution); Grogan et al. 2010: 24 (as new synonym of D. scissurae Macfie View in CoL ).

Diagnosis. The only Neotropical species of the mutabilis group in which males have a gonostylus with a deeply bifid apex. Females with broad V-shaped apical portion of subgenital plate; sternite 9 halves very slender with curved sharply pointed anteriorly directed apices; and a small (length 48 µm) ovoid spermatheca with a short narrow neck.

Discussion. Borkent & Spinelli (2000, 2007) and Borkent & Grogan (2009) listed this wide ranging Neotropical species from Florida. However, Grogan et a l. (2010) noted that the bases for these Florida listings were unknown to them, and therefore, they provided the first definitive records of D. scissurae from Florida and the United States . In addition, Grogan et al. (2010) noted that the illustrations of the male genitalia of the holotype of D. koenigi Delécolle & Rieb (1994) described from Guadeloupe are virtually identical with illustrations of the male genitalia of D. scissurae described by Macfie (1937) from Trinidad . Accordingly, Grogan et al. (2010) considered both species conspecific, and regarded D. koenigi as a junior synonym of D. scissurae . Unfortunately, we did not find any males or females of D. scissurae in the 2010 or 2012 Basse Terre, Guadeloupe collections.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Ceratopogonidae

Genus

Dasyhelea

Loc

Dasyhelea scissurae Macfie

Grogan, Willliam L., Díaz, Florentina, Spinelli, Gustavo R. & Ronderos, Maria M. 2016
2016
Loc

Dasyhelea koenigi Delécolle & Rieb, 1994 : 267 (Guadeloupe)

Grogan 2010: 24
Borkent 2007: 60
Borkent 2000: 26
Delecolle 1994: 267
1994
Loc

Dasyhelea scissurae

Borkent 2007: 61
Borkent 2000: 26
Wirth 1974: 18
Macfie 1953: 103
Macfie 1937: 15
1937
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