Forcipomyia (Warmkea) tuberculata Saunders, 1957
 
Geographic distribution
Distribution
Record
  • Argentina
    • Buenos Aires
    • Misiones
Other distribution
Trinidad
Costa Rica
Colombia
Brazil (Amazonas, Pará)

 
tuberculata Saunders, 1957: 677 (larva, pupa, male, female). Type locality: Trinidad and Tobago, North Range. HT F (CNCI). Distr.: Costa Rica, Colombia, Trinidad and Tobago, Brazil (Amazonas, Pará), Argentina (Buenos Aires: Berisso, Los Talas, 34°52'16.47''S, 57°51'8.76''W). Refs.: Spinelli & Balseiro, 1982: 226.
NEW RECORDS:
Misiones: arroyo Anyico at km 813 national Rt. 14, 27°39'52.76"S, 55°36'31.35"W. Buenos Aires: Estación Otamendi, INTA Delta, 34°10'30.44"S, 58°51'39.75"W.

Diagnosis. A large species with female hind TR 1.2; large, pyriform spermatheca with slender tapering neck; proximal flagellomeres very short, moniliform;gonostylus nearly straight and tips of parameres tightly twisted.
  • SAUNDERS, L. G. 1957. Revision of the genus Forcipomyia based on characters of all stages (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Canadian Journal of Zoology. 34: 657-705 (1956).
  • SPINELLI, G. R. & E. BALSEIRO. 1982. Observaciones relativas a la actividad nocturna de Ceratopogonidae (Diptera: Nematocera) en la zona de Los Talas (Provincia de Buenos Aires), mediante el empleo de una trampa de luz. Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina. 41: 225–232.
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