Stilobezzia (Stilobezzia) coquilletti Kieffer 1917
Creators: name: Huerta, Herón
name: Grogan, William L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Ceratopogonidae
Stilobezzia
Stilobezzia coquilletti

description: Stilobezzia (Stilobezzia) coquilletti Kieffer
Ceratopogon pictus Coquillett, 1905: 60. Virginia. (female). Preoccupied by Ceratopogon pictus Meigen, 1818: 80.
Hartomyia picta: Malloch 1915: 340 (combination; description; fig. wing; distribution).
Stilobezzia coquilletti Kieffer, 1917: 308 (new name for Ceratopogon pictus Coquillett; description; fig. male genitalia; distribution); Johannsen 1943: 781 (in list of North American Ceratopogonidae; distribution); Woke 1954: 69 (larval habitat); Mullen & Hribar 1988: 66 (larval habitat).
Stilobezzia (Stilobezzia) coquilletti: Wirth 1953:75 (description male, female; fig. male genitalia; distribution); Lane & Forattini 1956: 213 (description female, male; figs.; distribution); Lane & Forattini 1961: 85 (in key to Neotropical Stilobezzia; pupa; figs.; distribution); Wirth 1965: 134 (in Nearctic catalog north of Mexico; distribution); Wirth 1974: 44 (in New World catalog south of the USA; distribution); Wirth & Grogan, 1981: 5 (description female, male, pupa; figs.; distribution); Wilkening et al. 1985: 526 (Florida records); Huerta 1996 (record from Chiapas, Mexico); Borkent & Wirth 1997: 110 (in World catalog); Borkent & Spinelli 2000: 54 (in New World catalog south of the USA; distribution); Huerta 2002: 56 (diagnoses male, female; figs.; in key; distribution); Borkent & Spinelli 2007: 30 (in Neotropical catalog; distribution); Borkent & Grogan 2009: 22 (in New World catalog north of Mexico; distribution); Ronderos et al. 2008: 31 (description; photomicrographs of pupa, larva; diagnosis of adults; figs.; biology; distribution); Borkent 2014: 224 (reference to pupae); Borkent 2016: 141 (in online World catalog).
Discussion. This common widespread species inhabits the USA from Maryland, Virginia, Illinois south to Florida and Louisiana (Borkent & Grogan 2009), Mexico (Chiapas, Yucatan) to Panama, and also in South America in Trinidad and Brazil (Borkent & Spinelli 2000, 2007). The immature stages were recently described by Ronderos et al. (2008). The adults are readily distinguished from similar congeners by their distinctive wing pattern and other features included in our key. We provide the first records from Veracruz, Mexico.
Material Examined. MEXICO: Veracruz, Municipio Actopan, Localidad El Farrallón, 13–14-Ago-2009, en potrero cercano a la localidad, Trampa Malaise, Cols. C. Pérez-Rentería & A. Rodríguez-Atanacio, 1 female (OH); Municipio. Actopan, Localidad Soyacuautla, 15-mayo-2008, en Mangal, Muestra 13, Trampa Malaise, Entomological Brigade JSV, 1 male (OH); Dos Amates, 24–28-jul-1998, Trampa Malaise, S. Ibáñez-Bernal & R. Paz-Rodríguez, 1 male (OH). New Mexico Record.
description: Published as part of Huerta, Herón & Grogan, William L., 2017, New species and new records of predaceous midges in the genera, Schizonyxhelea Clastrier and Stilobezzia Kieffer from Mexico (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), pp. 401-418 in Zootaxa 4294 (4) on pages 412-413, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4294.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/832774