The American species of the annulatipes group of the subgenus Lepidohelea, genus Forcipomyia (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)

Authors

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

Date of this Version

June 1992

Comments

Published in Insecta Mundi Vol. 6, No. 2, June, 1992. Copyright © 1992 by Wirth and Spinelli.

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

Abstract

The annulatipes group of the genus Forcipomyia Meigen, subgenus Lepidohelea Kieffer, is represented in the Western Hemisphere by 12 species. Keys are presented for their identification, and to distinguish them from other groups of the subgenus Lepidohelea. The three previously known species, annulatipes Macfie, brasiliensis Macfie, and kuanoskeles Macfie, from southern Brazil, as well as the following nine new species, are described and illustrated: bahiensis, basifemoralis, bifida, convexipenis, euthystyla, gravesi, herediae, hobbsi, and weemsi