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Stilobezzia (Acanthohelea)
Stilobezzia (Acanthohelea) hirsuta Ingram & Macfie, 1931
sintype females (BMNH)
Geographic distribution
Distribution
Record
- Argentina
- Río Negro
- Tierra del Fuego
Other distribution
hirsuta Ingram & Macfie, 1931: 201 (male, female). Type locality: Argentina, Río Negro, PN Nahuel Huapi, Bariloche, 41°08’0.50”S, 71°18'37.00"W. HT M (BMNH). Distr.- Argentina (Neuquén: PN Nahuel Huapi, lago Cántaros, 41°00'23''S, 71°49'18.4''W, 887 m. Río Negro: type locality. Tierra del Fuego: PN Tierra del Fuego, 54º51'23.6''S, 68º35'37.3''W, 31 m). Refs.: Ingram & Macfie, 1931: 201; Cazorla & Spinelli, 2015: 167.
Diagnosis: the only Patagonian species of Stilobezzia (Acanthohelea) that is large (male wing length 2.75–3.03 mm; female wing length 2.38–2.80 mm), with the body completely covered with long, coarse setae and tarsomeres 1–2 of all legs bearing two apical spines. Males sternite 9 with a posteromedian hyaline projection and posterior margin of tergite 9 bilobate. Females scutellum with 10–12 large and 8–10 thinner setae.
Diagnosis: the only Patagonian species of Stilobezzia (Acanthohelea) that is large (male wing length 2.75–3.03 mm; female wing length 2.38–2.80 mm), with the body completely covered with long, coarse setae and tarsomeres 1–2 of all legs bearing two apical spines. Males sternite 9 with a posteromedian hyaline projection and posterior margin of tergite 9 bilobate. Females scutellum with 10–12 large and 8–10 thinner setae.
- INGRAM, A. & J. W. S. MACFIE. 1931. Ceratopogonidae. In: Diptera of Patagonia and South Chile. Part II. Fasc. 4: 155-232.:155-232.
- SPINELLI, G. R. & W. W. WIRTH. 1993. Los Ceratopogonidae de la Argentina (Insecta: Diptera). In: Castellanos Z. editor. Fauna de agua dulce de la Republica Argentina. Volumen 38. Diptera, Ceratopogonidae. 3: 1-124.:51.
- CAZORLA, C. G & G. R. SPINELLI. 2015. A revision of the Patagonian predaceous midges of the subgenus Acanthohelea of Stilobezzia excluding the S. (A.) edwardsi group (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). J. Nat. Hist. 49: 155-209.:167.
