Stilobezzia (Stilobezzia) glauca Macfie 1939
Creators: name: Huerta, Herón
name: Grogan, William L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Ceratopogonidae
Stilobezzia
Stilobezzia glauca

description: Stilobezzia (Stilobezzia) glauca Macfie
Stilobezzia glauca Macfie, 1939: 204. Brazil. (male; fig. genitalia); Lane 1947: 198 (female; in key); Mullen & Hribar 1988: 65 (larval habitat); McKeever et al. 1991: 94 (SEM photographs of adult mouthparts).
Stilobezzia (Stilobezzia) glauca: Wirth 1953: 77 (redescription male, female; fig. male genitalia; distribution); Lane et al. 1955: 84 (pupa; figs.; S. fluminensis Lane as synonym; distribution); Lane & Forattini 1958: 211 (notes; fig. male genitalia; 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: 81 (female, male, pupa diagnoses; figs; distribution); Wilkening et al. 1985: 526 (Florida records); Ibañez-Bernal et al. 1996: 570 (Chiapas, Mexico); Borkent & Wirth 1997: 111 (in World catalog); Borkent & Spinelli 2000: 54 (in New World catalog south of USA; distribution); Borkent & Spinelli 2007: 87 (in Neotropical catalog; distribution); Borkent & Grogan 2009: 22 (in Nearctic catalog North of Mexico; distribution); Grogan et al. 2010: 40 (new Florida records; distribution); Borkent 2014: 224 (reference to pupae); Borkent 2016: 141 (in online World catalog); Cazorla 2016: 187 (new records from Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Peru); Borkent 2016: 141 (in online World catalog).
Stilobezzia glauca venezuelensis Ortiz, 1950: 199 (as new variety of S. glauca; = Stilobezzia (Stilobezzia) venezuelensis Ortiz). Stilobezzia fluminensis Lane, 1947: 210. Brazil. (female).
Discussion. This species is widely distributed in the Nearctic region in the USA from Maryland south to Louisiana and Florida, and it is also known in the Neotropical region from Mexico (Chiapas) and Brazil. We provide the first records from Oaxaca and Veracruz, Mexico.
Material Examined. MEXICO, Oaxaca, Municipio San Juan Guichicovi, Localidad El Zacatal, 27–28 jul 2009, en potrero, Trampa CDC, B. Salceda-Sánchez, A. Rodríguez-Atanacio & J. Ordoñez-Álvarez, 1 female, 1 male (OH); Municipio Santo Domingo, Petapa, Localidad La Esperanza, 28–29-Julio-2009, Trampa Malaise, B. Salceda-Sánchez, A. Rodríguez-Atanacio & J. Ordoñez-Álvarez, 1 female (OH). Veracruz, Municipio Actopan, Localidad El Farallón, 13–14-Ago-2009, en potrero cercano a la localidad, Trampa Malaise, C. Pérez-Rentería & A. Rodríguez-Atanacio, 1 female, 1 male (OH); Alto Lucero, Localidad Arroyo Agrío, LC- 19-12, 20-Feb-2010, en potrero, Trampa Malaise, Entomological Brigade JSV., 2 females (OH); same data except, 19-Feb-2010, en potrero, 1 female (OH). New Mexico Records.
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 413-414, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4294.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/832774