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Stilobezzia (Acanthohelea)
Stilobezzia (Acanthohelea) patagonica Ingram & Macfie, 1931
Allotype female, tip of abdomen (BMNH)
Geographic distribution
Distribution
Record
- Argentina
- Neuquén
- Río Negro
Other distribution
Chile
patagonica Ingram & Macfie, 1931: 196 (male, female). Type locality: Argentina, Río Negro, PN Nahuel Huapi, Bariloche, 41°08’0.50”S, 71°18'37.00"W. HT M (BMNH). Distr.- Argentina (Neuquén: PN Lanin, arroyo Quechu-Quina at lago Lacar, 40°9'55.64"S, 71°35'4.40"W; PN Lanin, lago Lolog, 40°1'32.63"S, 71°21'17.39"W; PN Lanin, cerro Chapelco at lago Lacar, 40°10'34.71"S, 71°21'56.36"W; PN Lanin, Quila Quina at lago Lacar, 40°10'27.95"S, 71°26'4.38"W; PN Lanin, 10 km N San Martín de Los Andes, 40°3'28.33"S, 71°21'2.17"W; PN Nahuel Huapi, Villa La Angostura, 40°45'14.51"S, 71°39'4.31"W. Río Negro: PN Nahuel Huapi, lago Gutiérrez, 41°10'49.26''S, 71°23'15.08''W; PN Nahuel Huapi, lago Mascardi, 41°20'16.31"S, 71°30'12.96"W; PN Nahuel Huapi, 6 km W southern shore lago Mascardi, 41°21'1.70"S, 71°35'58.48"W; PN Nahuel Huapi, lago Steffen, 41°30'36.82"S, 71°32'20.51"W). Refs.: Ingram & Macfie, 1931: 196; Cazorla & Spinelli, 2015: 183.
Diagnosis: the only Patagonian species of Stilobezzia (Acanthohelea) in which males have the scutellum pale with 5–6 large setae and the postscutellum dark brown. Females with elongated, retort-shaped spermathecae, with proximal portion wide, ovoid and distal portion narrow.
Diagnosis: the only Patagonian species of Stilobezzia (Acanthohelea) in which males have the scutellum pale with 5–6 large setae and the postscutellum dark brown. Females with elongated, retort-shaped spermathecae, with proximal portion wide, ovoid and distal portion narrow.
- INGRAM, A. & J. W. S. MACFIE. 1931. Ceratopogonidae. In: Diptera of Patagonia and South Chile. Part II. Fasc. 4: 155-232.:155-232.
- SPINELLI, G. R. & W. W. WIRTH. 1993. Los Ceratopogonidae de la Argentina (Insecta: Diptera). In: Castellanos Z. editor. Fauna de agua dulce de la Republica Argentina. Volumen 38. Diptera, Ceratopogonidae. 3: 1-124.:51.
- CAZORLA, C. G & G. R. SPINELLI. 2015. A revision of the Patagonian predaceous midges of the subgenus Acanthohelea of Stilobezzia excluding the S. (A.) edwardsi group (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). J. Nat. Hist. 49: 155-209.:183.
