Monohelea maya Felippe-Bauer, Huerta and Ibáñez-Bernal

William L. Grogan, Jr., Spinelli, Ronderos, María M. & Carla, 2013, The biting and predaceous midges of Guadeloupe Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). I. Species of the subfamily Ceratopogoninae, Insecta Mundi 2013 (324), pp. 1-21 : 7-8

Monohelea maya Felippe-Bauer, Huerta and Ibáñez-Bernal

Monohelea maya Felippe-Bauer, Huerta and Ibáñez-Bernal, 2000: 815 ( Mexico) ; Borkent and Spinelli 2007: 83 (in Neotropical catalog; distribution);

Discussion. This Neotropical species was previously known only from the type series from the state of Yucatan, Mexico. Our two females from Guadeloupe have wing lengths of 0.80 and 0.83 mm, which are considerably smaller than the 1.15-1.32 mm recorded for females of M. maya by Felippe-Bauer et al. (2000). However, other morphological features of the Guadeloupe females appear identical with females from Mexico, so we are fairly confident of our identification of the Guadeloupe females as this species. We provide the first records of this species in the Caribbean region from Guadeloupe.

New records. Guadeloupe, Basse Terre, Corrosol, MC Thomas & RH Turnbow, Blacklight trap, 1 female ; same data except Pigeon, 9-IX-2010, 1 female. New Guadeloupe record .