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Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia)
Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) rioplatensis Marino & Spinelli, 2002
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Distribution
Record
- Argentina
- Buenos Aires
- Córdoba
Other distribution
Uruguay
rioplatensis Marino & Spinelli, 2002: 314 (male, female). Type locality: Argentina, Buenos Aires, Berisso, Los Talas, 34°52'16.47''S, 57°51'8.76''W. HT M (MLPA). Distr.- Argentina (Buenos Aires: type locality; Alberti, 35°1'28.63"S, 60°15'36.92"W; San Vicente, 35°1'27.13"S, 58°25'58.45"W; isla Martín García, área urbana, 34°11'8.00"S, 58°15'2.23"W; Ensenada, Reserva Natural Integral marginal forest, 34º47'21.2''S, 57º59'56.8''W; same data except grassland, 34°48'01.36"S, 58°00'26.26"W Sierra de la Ventana, Villa Ventana, 38°03'55''S, 61°53'00'', 350 m; Sierra de la Ventana, arroyo Belisario, 38º05'18.7''S, 61º55'46.9''W, 376 m. Córdoba: paraje Las Jarillas, río San Antonio, 31º32'02.8''S, 64º33'01.7''W, 820 m), Uruguay. Refs.: Marino & Spinelli, 2002: 314; Spinelli et al., 2005b: 109; Spinelli et al., 2010: 129; Marino et al., 2011a: 202; Ronderos et al., 2011: 1187; Cazorla et al, 2018: 5.
Diagnosis. A dark brown species of the squamitibia group, distinguished from other members of the species group by the following combination of characters: third palpal segment slightly swollen at base, tapering toward apex; scutum uniformly dark brown; legs brown except basal 1/2 of hind femur pale, knees pale; tibial hastate spines slender, pointed; spermathecae
ovoid with short neck; sternite 9 with anteromesal groove; aedeagus stout, basal arch very low, tip blunt; parameres widely separated at base.
Spinelli et al.; 2005 described and illustrated the fourth instar larva and pupa using Phase-Contrast and SSEM. They were collected from nest of the monk parakeet. Myiopsitta monachus monachus (Brodaert), in San Vicente Busnos Aires province. larvae have characters states typical of other species of Forcipomyia with herviborous ceratopogonid larvae.
Diagnosis. A dark brown species of the squamitibia group, distinguished from other members of the species group by the following combination of characters: third palpal segment slightly swollen at base, tapering toward apex; scutum uniformly dark brown; legs brown except basal 1/2 of hind femur pale, knees pale; tibial hastate spines slender, pointed; spermathecae
ovoid with short neck; sternite 9 with anteromesal groove; aedeagus stout, basal arch very low, tip blunt; parameres widely separated at base.
Spinelli et al.; 2005 described and illustrated the fourth instar larva and pupa using Phase-Contrast and SSEM. They were collected from nest of the monk parakeet. Myiopsitta monachus monachus (Brodaert), in San Vicente Busnos Aires province. larvae have characters states typical of other species of Forcipomyia with herviborous ceratopogonid larvae.
- MARINO, P. I. & G. R. SPINELLI. 2002. A revision of the Forcipomyia squamitibia group in the Neotropics with the descriptions of three new species (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). International Journal of Tropical Insect Science. 22: 307-319.
- SPINELLI, G. R., M. M. RONDEROS, F. DÍAZ & P. I. MARINO. 2005. The bloodsucking midges of Argentina (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. 100 (2): 137-150.
- SPINELLI, G. R., P. I. MARINO & M. M. RONDEROS. 2005. The fourth instar larva and pupa of the Neotropical biting midge Forcipomyia (F.) rioplatensis Marino and Spinelli (Díptera: Ceratopogonidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, Washington. 107(1): 108-114. ISSN: 0013-8797.
- SPINELLI, G. R., P. I. MARINO & A. L. GADDI. 2010. New records of biting midges from Argentina and Chile (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina 69(1-2): 127-132.
- RONDEROS, M. M., P. I. MARINO, F. DÍAZ & A. L. ESTÉVEZ. 2011. Biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from Martín García Island, Argentina. Revista de Biología Tropical. 59(3): 1183-1194.
- CAZORLA, C.G., P.I. MARINO, F. DÍAZ, F. & R. E. CAMPOS.. . 2018. Diversity of Ceratopogonidae (Diptera: Culicomorpha) from the Reserva Integral Natural Punta Lara (Buenos Aires, Argentina. Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina. 77: 1–13.
