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Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia)
Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) quatei Wirth, 1952
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Geographic distribution
Distribution
Record
- Argentina
- Entre Ríos
- Misiones
Other distribution
USA
Dominica
Belize
Costa Rica
Panama
Ecuador
Brazil
Paraguay
Dominica
Belize
Costa Rica
Panama
Ecuador
Brazil
Paraguay
quatei Wirth, 1952a: 142 (male, female). Type locality, USA, California, Kern Co., Bakersfielkd). HT M (USNM). Distr.: USA (California to Florida) to Ecuador, Brazil (Bahia), Argentina (Misiones: Aristóbulo del Valle, arroyo Cuña Pirú, 27°5'16.30"S, 54°57'8.64"W. Entre Ríos: Salto Grande, Puerto Luis, 31°23'36.01"S, 57°59'41.09"W) and Paraguay. Refs.: Marino & Spinelli, 2008: 793.
Diagnosis. A pale brown species with yellowish legs; wing dark brown with a small yellow spot at end of costa; abdomen with conspicuous clumps of broad, striated, blackish scales on pleural segments; halter brown.
Diagnosis. A pale brown species with yellowish legs; wing dark brown with a small yellow spot at end of costa; abdomen with conspicuous clumps of broad, striated, blackish scales on pleural segments; halter brown.
- WIRTH, W. W. 1952a. The Heleidae of California. University of California, Publications in Entomology. 9: 95-266.
- 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.
