The Western Hemisphere Species of the Predaceous Midge Genus Echinohelea, with Descriptions of Six New Species (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)

Authors

Willis W. Wirth, Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville, FL

Date of this Version

September 1994

Comments

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

Abstract

There are four previously described species of the genus Echinohelea Kieffer in the Western Hemisphere. The following species are described as NEW SPECIES: aitkeni from Brazil, blantoni and panamensis from Panama, jamaicensis from Jamaica, and leei and neotropica from Colombia. Echinoideshelea NEW SUBGENUS is described with E. aitkeni n. sp. as type-species. The hitherto unknown pupal stage of the genus is described fro E. lanei Wirth, which was reared from a pond margin in New York, USA. Diagnoses are presented for the genus Echinohelea and the subgenus Echinoideshelea, a key is given for the identification of the 11 species, descriptions or diagnoses are given for all species, and diagnostic characters of the male genitalia are illustrated.