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Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia)
Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) calatheae Wirth, 1982
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Geographic distribution
Distribution
Record
- Argentina
- La Rioja
- Salta
- Santiago del Estero
Other distribution
Colombia
Dominicana
Brazil
Dominicana
Brazil
calatheae Wirth, 1982a: 573 (larva, pupa, male, female). Type locality: Dominica, Calabishie at mouth of Hodges river. HT F (USNM).
Distr.: Colombia, Dominica, Brazil (Bahia, Santa Catarina), Argentina (Salta: río Juramento at national Rt. 9, 25°07'52.45"S, 65°00'58.95"W. Santiago del Estero: Ojo de Agua, 29°30'07''S, 63°41'33''W, 504 m. La Ríoja: Chilecito, 29°10'27.22"S, 67°28'45.61"W). Refs.: Marino & Spinelli, 2008: 793.
Diagnosis. A brownish species with pale yellow legs; wing dark brown with a small, yellow spot at end of costa; male wing yellowish with dark brown macrotrichia over radial veins and infuscation over vein CuA2; halter brown.
Distr.: Colombia, Dominica, Brazil (Bahia, Santa Catarina), Argentina (Salta: río Juramento at national Rt. 9, 25°07'52.45"S, 65°00'58.95"W. Santiago del Estero: Ojo de Agua, 29°30'07''S, 63°41'33''W, 504 m. La Ríoja: Chilecito, 29°10'27.22"S, 67°28'45.61"W). Refs.: Marino & Spinelli, 2008: 793.
Diagnosis. A brownish species with pale yellow legs; wing dark brown with a small, yellow spot at end of costa; male wing yellowish with dark brown macrotrichia over radial veins and infuscation over vein CuA2; halter brown.
- MARINO, P. I. & G. R. SPINELLI. 2008. Biting Midges of the Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) argenteola group in southern South America, with description of a new species and a key to the Neotropical species (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Rev. Biol. Trop. 56 (2): 789-794.
