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Ceratopogonidae
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Forcipomyiinae
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Forcipomyia
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Forcipomyia (Caloforcipomyia)
Forcipomyia (Caloforcipomyia) copanensis Utmar & Wirth, 1976
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Geographic distribution
Distribution
Record
- Argentina
- Corrientes
- Jujuy
Other distribution
Honduras
Costa Rica
Costa Rica
copanensis Utmar & Wirth, 1976: 129 (male, female). Type locality: Honduras, Copan, Santa Rosa. HT M (USNM). Distr.: Honduras, Costa Rica, Argentina (Jujuy: Posta de Lozano, 24°04'39.17"S, 65°24'36.80"W). Refs.: Spinelli & Wirth, 1993: 26.
NEW RECORDS:
Corrientes: Santa Tecla, 27°36'57.67"S, 56°23'14.66" W. Buenos Aires: Berisso, Los Talas, 34°52'16.47''S, 57°51'8.76''W.
Diagnosis. A large, unicolours brownish species with hind TR 1.66-2.20; palpus slender; female with proximal antennal segments irregular, vasiform; two dark, pyriform spermathecae; anal cone with two long, terminal setae; male with aedeagus broadly wedge-shaped, distally truncate, with a small, median papilla.
NEW RECORDS:
Corrientes: Santa Tecla, 27°36'57.67"S, 56°23'14.66" W. Buenos Aires: Berisso, Los Talas, 34°52'16.47''S, 57°51'8.76''W.
Diagnosis. A large, unicolours brownish species with hind TR 1.66-2.20; palpus slender; female with proximal antennal segments irregular, vasiform; two dark, pyriform spermathecae; anal cone with two long, terminal setae; male with aedeagus broadly wedge-shaped, distally truncate, with a small, median papilla.
- UTMAR, J. A. & W. W. WIRTH. 1976. A revision of the new World species of Forcipomyia, subgenus Caloforcipomyia Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Florida Entomologist. 59: 109-133:109-153.
- 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.:1-124.
