Dasyhelea paulistana Forattini & Rabello, 1957
Seg 9 female pupa
Geographic distribution
Distribution
Record
- Argentina
- Corrientes
Other distribution
Brazil
Holotype female (HT F) Deposited (xxx)
Type locality: Brazil, Estado de São Paulo, ciudade de São Paulo, Parque da Agua Funda.
Distr.: Brazil (Estado de São Paulo, ciudade de São Paulo; Amazonas, Iranduba, Ilha da Marchantaria) Argentina (Corrientes: arroyo Pay Ubre, Bella Vista, ruta Prov. 27 Km 54, rio Batel, Estación Biológica Corrientes.
Refs.: Forattini & Rabello, 1957: 245; Borkent & Spinelli, 2007: 61; Díaz et al. 2014: 722; Borkent, 2016: 70.
Diagnosis. Only Neotropical species of the grisea group with the following combination of characters: adults with female subgenital plate ovoid, and males with elongate, sinuate paramere hooked at tip, and aedeagus with V-shaped basal arch. Pupa with respiratory thick at the base and distal half tapering to a sharp apex, with 21-22 apical pores, and terminal processes twice longer than length of body of segment 9.
Type locality: Brazil, Estado de São Paulo, ciudade de São Paulo, Parque da Agua Funda.
Distr.: Brazil (Estado de São Paulo, ciudade de São Paulo; Amazonas, Iranduba, Ilha da Marchantaria) Argentina (Corrientes: arroyo Pay Ubre, Bella Vista, ruta Prov. 27 Km 54, rio Batel, Estación Biológica Corrientes.
Refs.: Forattini & Rabello, 1957: 245; Borkent & Spinelli, 2007: 61; Díaz et al. 2014: 722; Borkent, 2016: 70.
Diagnosis. Only Neotropical species of the grisea group with the following combination of characters: adults with female subgenital plate ovoid, and males with elongate, sinuate paramere hooked at tip, and aedeagus with V-shaped basal arch. Pupa with respiratory thick at the base and distal half tapering to a sharp apex, with 21-22 apical pores, and terminal processes twice longer than length of body of segment 9.
- BORKENT, A. & G. R. SPINELLI. 2007. Neotropical Ceratopogonidae (Diptera: Insecta). In: Adis J., Arias J. R., Rueda-Delgado G., Wantzen K. M. editors. Aquatic Biodiversity in Latin America (ABLA) Vol. 4. Sofia-Moscow: Pensoft. pp,198:61.
- DÍAZ ET AL. 2014. A new species of Dasyhelea Kieffer from brazilian Amazonas and first description of the male of D. paulistana Forattini & Rabello (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae. 54 (2): 715-728.:54(2): 715-728.
- BORKENT, A. 2016. World species of biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). 245 pp. http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/research/FLYTREE/CeratopogonidaeCatalog.pdf. Last update May 16, 2016.:70.
