Dasyhelea grisea (Coquillett)

Grogan, William L., Díaz, Florentina, Spinelli, Gustavo R. & Ronderos, Maria M., 2019, The Biting Midges of the Caribbean island Curaçao (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) I. Species in the genus Dasyhelea Kieffer, Zootaxa 4700 (3), pp. 301-325 : 307

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4700.3.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B0712990-7A3B-4042-9A4B-5CE96AFAECF8

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5457132

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/DF72B52D-DE00-FF8F-FF54-1F27FA090835

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scientific name

Dasyhelea grisea (Coquillett)
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Dasyhelea grisea (Coquillett) View in CoL

Ceratopogon griseus Coquillett, 1901: 602 View in CoL (Washington, D.C.). Culicoides griseus: Kieffer 1906: 54 (combination). Dasyhelea grisea: Thomsen 1935: 283 View in CoL (combination); Wirth 1965: 127 (in Nearctic catalog; distribution); Waugh & Wirth 1976: 228 (in revision of eastern USA Dasyhelea View in CoL ; distribution); Wilkening et al. 1985: 518 (in list of Florida Ceratopogo- nidae; distribution); Borkent & Grogan 2009: 11 (in Nearctic catalog; distribution); Grogan et al. 2016: 209 ( Guadeloupe); Borkent, 2016: 66 (in online World catalog). Dasyhelea subcaerulea Thomsen, 1935: 284 (New York).

Diagnosis. The only Neotropical species of the grisea group with the following combination of characters. Males dark brown; gonocoxite with a prominent large, basomesal hook; asymmetrical gonocoxal apodemes; paramere broadly fused with right gonocoxal apodeme; tergite 9 tapered distally with narrow straight apical margin and long, cylindrical apicolateral processes. Females with a pyriform spermatheca that is tapered distally with short narrow neck; and a subgenital plate with triangular or arrow-head shaped anterior portion and posterior portion quadrate with a broad U-shaped posterior margin.

Discussion. This common, widespread mostly Nearctic species was recently recorded from the Neotropics in the Caribbean region from Guadeloupe by Grogan et al. (2016). We provide the first records of D. grisea from Curaçao.

Material examined. CURAÇAO, Piscadera , 0.5 km N of Carmbi, 12°7ʹ6.88ʹʹ N, 69°58ʹ1.14ʹʹ W, 6-XI-2014, M. C. Thomas, blacklight trap, 1 female GoogleMaps ; same data except Christoffel , Nat. Pk., Weg Narr, Playa Kanoa, 12°9ʹ7.82ʹʹ N, 68°52́ʹ9.13ʹʹ W, 10-XI-2014, 3 females ; same data except Piscadera Baai , 5-XII-2015, Blacklight trap in man- groves, 2 males, 1 female ; same data except Weg Naar , Playa Kanoa nr. cement Plant, 6-XII-2015, 1 female ; same data except Playa Kanoa Rd. , 12°09ʹ33.02ʹʹ N, 68°52ʹ50.36ʹʹ W, 6-XII-2015, R. Turnbow, 3 males, 2 females GoogleMaps ; same data except Malpais , Trail, 12°10ʹ12.94ʹʹ N, 69°00ʹ23.11ʹʹ W, 3-XII-2015, 1 male, 1 female. New Curaçao record. GoogleMaps

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Ceratopogonidae

Genus

Dasyhelea

Loc

Dasyhelea grisea (Coquillett)

Grogan, William L., Díaz, Florentina, Spinelli, Gustavo R. & Ronderos, Maria M. 2019
2019
Loc

Ceratopogon griseus

Wirth, W. W. 1965: 127
Thomsen, L. 1935: 283
Kieffer, J. J. 1906: 54
Coquillett, D. W. 1901: 602
1901
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