Leptoconops ( Holoconops ) whitseli Clastrier and Wirth

Phillips, Robert A., 2022, Culicoides Latreille and Leptoconops Skuse biting midges of the southwestern United States with emphasis on the Canyonlands of southeastern Utah (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), Insecta Mundi 2022 (907), pp. 1-214 : 25

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scientific name	Leptoconops ( Holoconops ) whitseli Clastrier and Wirth
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Leptoconops ( Holoconops) whitseli Clastrier and Wirth View in CoL

Leptoconops ( Holoconops) whitseli Clastrier and Wirth, 1978: 20 View in CoL (key; female, male, pupa; fig. female antenna, palpus,

spermathecae, male fore tarsomere 1, genitalia, palpus, pupal respiratory horn, abdominal segments; California). Leptoconops kerteszi View in CoL , misidentified: Whitsel and Schoeppner 1965 (attractant study).

Distribution. Coastal California beaches (Monterey and Santa Barbara counties).

Larval ecology. Immatures have been reared from ocean beach sand ( Clastrier and Wirth 1978).

Adult behavior. Males have been collected from Umbelliferae flowers ( Clastrier and Wirth 1978). Little else is known about the biology of this species other than that the mandibular and lacinial teeth on the female and attraction to CO 2 indicate it feeds on vertebrate blood.

Remarks. No L. whitseli were examined.