Bezzia (Bezzia) gibbera (Coquillett)

Bezzia (Bezzia) gibbera (Coquillett) View in CoL

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Ceratopogon gibber Coquillett, 1905: 60 View in CoL (female; Cuba).

Probezzia gibber (Coquillett) ; Johannsen 1908: 267 (combination); Malloch 1914a: 138 (in table); Malloch 1915: 357 (note); Johannsen 1943: 785 (list of North American Ceratopogonidae View in CoL ).

Bezzia gibber (Coquillett) View in CoL ; Kieffer 1917: 330 (combination).

Bezzia gibbera (Coquillett) View in CoL ; Wirth 1965: 141 (catalog north of Mexico; distribution); Wirth 1974: 53 (Neotropical catalog; distribution); Dow & Turner 1976: 142 (revision of Nearctic Bezzia View in CoL ; in part, confused with several species under this name ( Wirth & Grogan 1983: 508); female redescription; figs.; distribution); Wirth & Grogan 1983: 506 (revision of the Bezzia bivittata View in CoL group, diagnosis, redescription, figs.; distribution); Spinelli & Wirth 1990: 17 (revision Neotropical Bezzia gibbera View in CoL group, diagnosis; distribution); Borkent & Wirth 1997: 126 (world catalog); Borkent & Spinelli 2000: 61 (new world catalog south of the USA; distribution); Huerta 2002: 65 ( Yucatan record; distribution; figs.); Borkent & Spinelli 2007: 93 (Neotropical catalog; distribution); Borkent & Grogan 2009: 26 (catalog north of Mexico; distribution); Borkent 2014: 234 (pupa; key); Ronderos et al. 2018: 645 (list of immatures); Anjos et al. 2018: 152 (diagnostic characters of pupae); Borkent & Dominiak 2020: 200 (world catalog); Spinelli et al. 2023: 63 (catalog of biting midges from Argentina).

Diagnosis. The only species in the gibbera group with the following combination of characters: palpal segment 4 pale; scutum dark brown, with fine setae arising from raised tubercles; hind femur and tibia dark brown, mid femur and tibia lighter brown except apex, and proximal 2/3 of fore femur and broad midportion of fore tibia, yellow on apex of mid tibia, distal 1/4 of fore femur and base and apex of fore tibia, tarsomeres pale; halter dark brown; spermathecae large, elongate, ovoid, subequal-sized; male genitalia with setose lobe on ventromedian base of gonocoxite.

Material examined. MEXICO, Yucatan, Reserva Ría Lagartos, Km 10 carretera Ria Lagartos-Las Coloradas , petén, light trap, 21-mar-1996, Ibáñez-Bernal, S., 1 male CAIM ; same data except, CDC trap, 1-sep-1995, Navarro-Correa, C., Paz-Rodríguez, R, Huerta, H., 1 male; 14-oct-1996, Huerta , H., 6 females, 5 males ; same data except, Malaise trap, 30-nov-1995, Huerta, H., Navarro-Correa, C., Paz-Rodríguez, R., 1 female ; same data except, air net, 8-jul-1996, Martínez-Campos, C., 1 male ; same data except, Malaise trap, 5-mar-1997, Ibáñez-Bernal, S., 1 female . Estación, Ría Lagartos , selva baja caducifolia, light trap, 31-aug-1995, Huerta, H., 2 females . Reserva Ría Celestún, Rancho Loma Bonita, km 15 carretera Celestún-Kinchil , peten, Malaise trap, 16-jul-1996, 1 female ; same data except, Malaise trap, 15-oct-1996, 1 female, 1 male .

New record from Veracruz: Vega Alatorre, Emiliano Carranza, LC 20 bis, Acahual , 26-aug-2008, CDC trap, 1 female CAIM .

Distribution. USA ( Arizona to Florida), Mexico ( Oaxaca, Veracruz, Yucatan), Panama, Jamaica, Cuba, Tobago and Argentina.

Remarks. This species is distributed in the Nearctic and Neotropical regions, with previous records in Mexico from Oaxaca ( Wirth & Grogan 1983) and Veracruz ( Spinelli & Wirth 1990). We include the second record from Veracruz.