Atrichopogon (Atrichopogon) caribbeanus Ewen

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 : 4

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5352908

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5450637

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scientific name

Atrichopogon (Atrichopogon) caribbeanus Ewen
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Atrichopogon (Atrichopogon) caribbeanus Ewen View in CoL

Atrichopogon caribbeanus Ewen View in CoL , in Ewen and Saunders, 1958: 683 ( Tobago).

Atrichopogon (Atrichopogon) caribbeanus: Borkent and Wirth 1997: 23 View in CoL (in World catalog); Borkent and Spinelli 2000: 10 (in Neotropical catalog; distribution).

Discussion. This Neotropical species was previously known only from the original Tobago type series that included larvae, pupae and adults reared from wood collected in a stream. We discovered a single female in the FSCA with associated larval and pupal exuviae reared from water lettuce by Kai Lok Chan in Indian River Co., Florida that Wirth mounted on a slide and identified as this species. The unique features of the larva, pupa and adult female agree perfectly with the illustrations and descriptions in Ewen and Saunders (1958) and, therefore, this is the first record of this species from Florida and the United States.

New records. Florida, Indian River Co., Chinese Farm, 21-VIII-1987, Kai Lok Chan, ex. Pistia leaf, 1 female (FSCA). New continental US record.

Borkent, A., and W. W. Wirth. 1997. World species of biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 233: 1 - 257.

Borkent, A., and G. R. Spinelli. 2000. Catalog of the New World biting midges south of the United States of America (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Contributions on Entomology, International. Associated Publishers; Gainesville, Florida. 4: 1 - 107.

Ewen, A. B., and L. G. Saunders. 1958. Contributions toward a revision of the genus Atrichopogon based on characters of all stages (Diptera, Heleidae). Canadian Journal of Zoology 36: 671 - 724.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Ceratopogonidae

Genus

Atrichopogon