Forcipomyia sexvittata, Wirth, 1956 a: 248

Spinelli, Gustavo R., Ronderos, María M., Ayala, Mahia M. & Díaz, Florentina, 2023, Catalog of the biting midges of Argentina (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), Zootaxa 5261 (1), pp. 1-83 : 26

sexvittata Wirth, 1956a: 248 (male, female).

Type locality: Costa Rica, Los Diamantes. HT M (USNM). Distr.: Costa Rica, Argentina (Misiones: Puerto Iguazú, Arroyo Mbocay, 25°37′51.16″S, 54°33′41.46″W). Refs.: Spinelli et al., 2010: 129.

New record: Misiones: Eldorado, 26°23′55.73″S, 54°41′36.05″W ; El Soberbio, 27°17′29.81″S, 54°11′43.39″W .

Note: Spinelli & Balseiro (1982, page 226) recorded Forcipomyia squamitibia Lutz from Berisso, Los Talas, in Buenos Aires, on the basis of a single female specimen. The subsequent study of this specimen revealed that the specimens from Argentina belongs to an unidentified species of the subgenus Lepidohelea . Forcipomyia squamitibia is distributed in Brazil, Colombia, Puerto Rico and Trinidad, as it is pointed out by Marino & Spinelli (2002).