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Ceratopogonidae
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Forcipomyiinae
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Forcipomyia
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Forcipomyia (Caloforcipomyia)
Forcipomyia (Caloforcipomyia) sabalitensis Utmar & Wirth, 1976
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Geographic distribution
Distribution
Record
- Argentina
- Misiones
Other distribution
Honduras,
Costa Rica
Panamá
Colombia
Brazil
Costa Rica
Panamá
Colombia
Brazil
sabalitensis Utmar & Wirth, 1976: 127 (male, female). Type locality: Costa Rica, Puntarenas, Sabalito. HT M (USNM). Distr.: Honduras to Colombia, Brazil (Paraná, Santa Catarina), Argentina (Misiones: Campo Viera, 27°21'57.62"S, 55°02'51.86"W). Refs.: Spinelli & Wirth, 1993: 27.
NEW RECORD:
Misiones: Puerto Iguazú, arroyo Mbocay, 25°37'51.16"S, 54°33'41.46"W.
Diagnosis. A large, unmarked, yellowish-brown species with hind TR 1.40-2.13; palpus slender; female with proximal antennal segments elongate, vasiform; two large, dark, broadly oval spermathecae; anal cone dark, bearing two long, apical setae; genital sclerotization indistinct, with two oblique sclerotized areas of the posterior arms; male aedeagus with wide arch.
NEW RECORD:
Misiones: Puerto Iguazú, arroyo Mbocay, 25°37'51.16"S, 54°33'41.46"W.
Diagnosis. A large, unmarked, yellowish-brown species with hind TR 1.40-2.13; palpus slender; female with proximal antennal segments elongate, vasiform; two large, dark, broadly oval spermathecae; anal cone dark, bearing two long, apical setae; genital sclerotization indistinct, with two oblique sclerotized areas of the posterior arms; male aedeagus with wide arch.
- UTMAR, J. A. & W. W. WIRTH. 1976. A revision of the new World species of Forcipomyia, subgenus Caloforcipomyia Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Florida Entomologist. 59: 109-133
- 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.
