Dasyhelea cincta

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 : 205

Cincta Group

The cincta group is equivalent to the subgenus Sebessia ( Dominiak 2012) . Both sexes are readily distinguished from other species groups/subgenera of Dasyhelea by their narrow elliptical frontal sclerite that often have lower marginal ear-like lobes. Males further differ from other groups/subgenera by the combination of the unique hyaline envelope that overlies their aedeagi and symmetrical gonocoxal apodemes and paramere. Females further differ from species in other groups/subgenera by their two well developed spermathecae that usually have hyaline surface punctations plus a 3rd small rudimentary spermatheca. Dominiak (2012) suggested that species in the Neotropical patagonica group proposed by Díaz et al. (2010), also likely belong to the subgenus Sebessia , which also includes the holosericea group, because the male aedeagus of that species lacks a hyaline envelope and the female has two spermathecae.