Neotropical Predaceous Midges of the Genus Bezzia (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) Part III. The gibbera Group of Species

Authors

Gustavo R. Spinelli, Instituto de Lirnnologia, Museo de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina
Willis W. Wirth, Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Gainesville, Florida

Date of this Version

March 1990

Comments

Published in Insecta Mundi Vol. 4, No. 1-4, March-December 1990. Copyright © 1990 Spinelli and Wirth.
Insecta Mundi, published by the Center for Systematic Entomology, is available online at http://centerforsystematicentomology.org/

Abstract

The gibbera Group of the genus Bezzia Kieffer, subgenus Bezzia, is comprised in the Neotropical Region of at least 16 species, of which the following 11 species are described as new: araucana from Argentina; catarinensis from Brazil; globulosa from Puerto Rico; grogani from Colombia, Mexico and Panama; hondurensis from Mexico and Central America; jubata, leei and megatheca from Colombia; mesotibialis from Belize and Trinidad; pseudogibbera from Honduras and Panama; and setigera from Colombia and El Salvador. A key is presented for subgenera and species groups, and for the Neotropical species of the gibbera Group.