New Species

08/05/08

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New species I have discovered:

 Pseudacteon bifidus Brown & Morrison

 

A parasitoid of native (Solenopsis geminata) fire ants, this small fly is known only from Texas.

Brown, B.V., and Morrison, L.W. 1999. A new Pseudacteon (Diptera: Phoridae) from North America that parasitizes native fire ants, Solenopsis geminata (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 92: 308-311.

Pseudacteon bifidus
Mexico morrisoni  Mexico morrisoni Skelley

 

 A 'jumping shore beetle', this species is known only from small islands in the Exuma Cays, Bahamas.

Skelley, P. E. 2005.  A new species of 'jumping shore beetle' in the genus Mexico Spilman from the Bahamas (Coleoptera:Limnichidae:Thaumastodinae).  Insecta Mundi, 19, 119-122.

 

 Dasyhelea morrisoni Grogan & Wieners

 

A new species of biting midge, known only from small islands in the Exuma Cays, Bahamas.

Grogan, W. L., Jr. and J. A. Wieners.  2006.  A new species of biting midge genus Dasyhelea Kieffer from the Bahamas (Diptera:Ceratapogonidae).  Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 108:467-473.

 

Dasyhelea morrisoni

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