A Report on a Collection of Ceratopogonidae (Diptera) from Rondonia, Brazil. 2. Tribes Heteromuiini and Sphaeromiini

Authors

Gustavo R. Spinelli, Instituto de Limnologia "Dr. Raul A. Ringuelet"
Andrea Dippolito, Instituto de Limnologia "Dr. Raul A. Ringuelet"
Willis W. Wirth, Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville, FL

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

March 1995

Comments

Insecta Mundi, published by the Center for Systematic Entomology, is available online at http://centerforsystematicentomology.org/. Copyright © by Spinelli, Dippolito, and Wirth.

Abstract

Examination of a large collection of Ceratopogonidae from Rondonia, Brazil, resulted in records of 11 species in the tribes Heteromyiini and Sphaeromiini, including the NEW GENUS Groganhelea Spinelli & Dippolito NEWGENUS, which is described herein, with its type-species G. rondoniensis Spinelli & Dippolito, NEW SPECIES. Heteromyia correntina Lane & Duret and Mallochohelea termophila (Spinelli) are recorded for the first time from Brazil.