Downeshelea
| Downeshelea | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Ceratopogonidae |
| Subfamily: | Ceratopogoninae |
| Tribe: | Ceratopogonini |
| Genus: | Downeshelea Wirth & Grogan, 1988 |
Downeshelea is a genus of predaceous midges in the family Ceratopogonidae. There are more than 20 described species in Downeshelea.[1][2][3]
Species
[edit]These 27 species belong to the genus Downeshelea:
- Downeshelea bicornis Felippe-Bauer & Quintelas, 1993
- Downeshelea bimaculata Clastrier & Delecolle, 1990
- Downeshelea blantoni Lane & Wirth
- Downeshelea cebacoi Lane & Wirth
- Downeshelea charrua Felippe-Bauer & Spinelli, 1994
- Downeshelea chiapasi Lane & Wirth
- Downeshelea chirusi Lane & Wirth
- Downeshelea colombiae Lane & Wirth
- Downeshelea deanei Felippe-Bauer & Quintelas, 1995
- Downeshelea fluminensis Felippe-Bauer & Quintelas, 1993
- Downeshelea fuscipennis Lane & Wirth
- Downeshelea grogani
- Downeshelea lanei Felippe-Bauer & Borkent
- Downeshelea leei (Debenham, 1972)
- Downeshelea macclurei Ratanaworabhan & Wirth
- Downeshelea mcdanieli (Tokunaga, 1959)
- Downeshelea multilineata (Lutz, 1914)
- Downeshelea nigra (Tokunaga, 1963)
- Downeshelea panamensis Lane & Wirth
- Downeshelea quasidentica Felippe-Bauer & Quintelas, 1993
- Downeshelea scanloni Ratanaworabhan & Wirth
- Downeshelea sepikensis (Debenham, 1972)
- Downeshelea stenochora Wirth & Giles, 1990
- Downeshelea stonei Wirth, 1953
- Downeshelea unimaculata (Debenham, 1972)
- Downeshelea whartoni Ratanaworabhan & Wirth
- Downeshelea xanthogonua (Tokunaga, 1963)
References
[edit]- ^ "Downeshelea Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ^ "Downeshelea". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ^ "Downeshelea genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
Further reading
[edit]- Borkent, A. (2012). World species of biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) (PDF) (Report). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-08-26. Retrieved 2018-04-24.
- Borkent, Art; Grogan, W. L. Jr. (2009). "Catalog of the New World Biting Midges North of Mexico (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2273: 1–48. ISSN 1175-5326.
- McAlpine, J. F.; Petersen, B. V.; Shewell, G. E.; Teskey, H. J.; Vockeroth, J. R.; Wood, D. M., eds. (1981). Manual of Nearctic Diptera, Volume I. Agriculture Canada, Research Branch. ISBN 978-0-660-10731-8.
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