Checklist of Diptera of the Czech Republic and Slovakia
electronic version 2, 2009

Ceratopogonidae Newman, 1834

Andrea Tóthová¹ & Jan Knoz²

¹Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlářská 2, CZ-611 37 Brno, Czech Republic; tothova@sci.muni.cz
² Arménská 13, CZ-625 00 Brno-Bohunice, Czech Republic; jknoz@seznam.cz

Adults of Ceratopogonidae are minute to small nematocerous flies with a body length of 1 to 5 mm. The body colour is brownish to blackish, usually with some yellow markings. Head with large compound eyes and antenna, with a scape, pedicel and usually thirteen flagellomeres. The distribution of antennal sensillae is important for species identification of females of Culicoides. Females usually with mouthparts adapted for piercing and sucking, the mouthparts weaker and much reduced in the male. Palps usually with five segments, with a sensory pit on third segment (enlarged in some species). Mesonotum occasionally with a pair of prescutal pits. Wing bare or covered with macrotrichia, ususally with two radial cells but the first or second or both reduced or absent in some groups; in others, the wing membrane may be patterned, particularly in Culicoides. Legs of males usually with small equal claws, and females with enlarged or unequal claws, and some species with femoral spines (e.g. Mallochohelea, Bezzia, Nilobezzia and Serromyia). Abdomen with ten segments; females with one to three variously shaped spermathecae.

The eggs of Ceratopogonidae are ovoid to elongated or of various shapes, whitish when first laid but rapidly darkening to brown or black. The larvae are terrestrial or semi-aquatic and have a hypo- or prognathous head; the body may have a complex system of setae set on tubercles, and the prothorax has a bilobed anterior proleg; in some species (subfamilies Dasyheleinae and Forcipomyiinae), however, the body may be smooth and elongated, without an anterior proleg or other appendages (subfamily Ceratopogoninae).

Adults of Culicoides and of the subgenus Lasiohelea (genus Forcipomyia) are haematophagous, but many of the other genera include insectivorous species.

The family Ceratopogonidae contains 5989 species worldwide (Borkent & Wirth 1997), of which 2970 species are reported from the Palaearctic Region (Remm 1988). Altogether 588 species are known to occur in Europe (Szadziewski & Borkent 2004). Total of 229 species are listed in the ECV2: 202 for the Czech Republic (146 for Bohemia, 156 for Moravia) and 140 for Slovakia. Since the PCV2 (Országh et al. 1997), the number of species in the Czech Republic has increased by 45, moreover another 11 species have been firstly recorded for Bohemia and 5 species for Moravia (Knoz et al. 2004, Knoz & Tóthová 2008, Tóthová et al. 2004a, b, 2005). Six first records and one omitted species have been added for Slovakia. The taxonomic status of 19 taxa has been corrected (Grogan & Wirth 1979, Tóthová & Knoz 2006, Wirth & Grogan 1988). The current nomenclature is used and a review of nomenclatural changes is included (Borkent 2009, Borkent & Wirth 1997, Grogan & Wirth 1979, Szadziewski & Knoz 2002). The genera Neurohelea Kieffer, 1925 (Heteromyiini), Nilobezzia Kieffer, 1921 (Sphaeromyiini) and the subgenera Lepidohelea Kieffer, 1917 and Panhelea Remm, 1980 were recorded for the first time from the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The nomenclature used in this checklist is that of the Fauna Europaea (Szadziewski & Borkent 2007).

For financial support, the Ministry of Education and the Masaryk University (grant No. MSM 0021622416) are acknowledged.

References

[1] Borkent A. 2009: World species of biting midges (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae). On-line version: <http://www.inhs.illinois.edu/research/FLYTREE/ CeratopogonidaeCatalog.pdf>. Retrieved 30.11.2009.

[2] Borkent A. & Wirth W.W. 1997: World species of biting midges (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 233: 1-257.

[3] Grogan W.L. & Wirth W.W. 1979: The North American predaceous midges of the genus Palpomyia Meigen (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Washington 8: 1-125.

[4] Knoz J., Olejníček J. & Gelbič I. 2004: Pakomárci (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae) na zrušené skládce komunálního odpadu Švábův Hrádek u Českých Budějovic. Acta Musei Bohemiae meridionalis, České Budějovice 44: 83-86.

[5] Knoz J. & Tóthová A. 2008: Ceratopogonidae of the Jizerské hory Mts and Frýdlant region (northern Bohemia, Czech Republic). In Vonička P. & Preisler J. (eds): Results of the entomological survey in the Jizerské hory Mts and Frýdlant region I. Acta Musei Bohemiae Borealis Scientiae Naturales, Liberec 26: 157-172.

[6] Mráz R. 1998: Pakomáre rodu Atrichopogon (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae) Malých Karpát. Entomofauna carpathica 10: 25-27.

[7] Országh I., Knoz J. & Chalupský J. 1997: Ceratopogonidae. In Chvála M. (ed.): Check-list of Diptera (Insecta) of the Czech and Slovak Republics. Karolinum – Charles University Press, Prague, pp. 39-42.

[8] Remm H. 1988: Ceratopogonidae. In Sóos A. & Papp L (eds): Catalogue of Palearctic Diptera. Vol. 3. Akadémia. Budapest, pp. 11-110.

[9] Szadziewski R. & Borkent A. 2007: Fauna Europaea: Ceratopogonidae. In Jong H. de (ed.): Fauna Europaea: Diptera, Nematocera. Fauna Europaea version 1.3. <http://www.faunaeur.org>. Retrieved 07.09.2009.

[10] Szadziewski R. & Knoz J. 2002: New synonyms of European biting midges (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae). Annales Zoologici 52: 249-251.

[11] Tóthová A. 2009: Ceratopogonidae. In Roháček J. & Ševčík J. (eds): Diptera of the Poľana Protected Landscape Area – Biosphere Reserve (Central Slovakia). SNC SR, Administration of the PLA – BR Poľana, Zvolen, pp. 102-104.

[12] Tóthová A. & Knoz J. 2006: A revised check-list of the biting midges (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae) of the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Studia dipterologica 13: 103-114.

[13] Tóthová A., Barták M. & Knoz J. 2004a: Ceratopogonidae of the Bílina and Duchcov Environs. In Kubík Š. & Barták M. (eds): Dipterologica bohemoslovaca 11. Folia Facultatis Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Masarykianae Brunensis, Biologia 109: 305-314.

[14] Tóthová A., Barták M. & Knoz J. 2004b: Ceratopogonidae of Southern Moravia (NP Podyjí). In Bitušík P. (ed.): Dipterologica bohemoslovaca 12. Acta Facultatis Ecologiae 12/Suppl. 1: 143-148.

[15] Tóthová A., Knoz J., Országh I. & Barták M. 2005. Genus Culicoides (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae) collected by non-light traps in South Moravia. Studia dipterologica 12: 49-55.

[16] Wirth W.W. & Grogan W.L. 1988: The predaceous midges of the world (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae, tribe Ceratopogonini). Flora and Fauna Handbook 4. Brill, New York, 175 pp.

CERATOPOGONINAE

CULICOIDINI

Culicoides Latreille, 1809

Avaritia Fox, 1955

abchazicus Dzhafarov, 1964

)

chiopterus (Meigen, 1830)

)

dewulfi Goetghebuer, 1936

(

)

obsoletus (Meigen, 1818)

)

scoticus Downes & Kettle, 1952

)

Beltranmyia Vargas, 1953

circumscriptus Kieffer, 1918

)

manchuriensis Tokunaga, 1941

)

salinarius Kieffer, 1914

(

)

sphagnumensis Williams, 1955

)

Culicoides s. str.

delta Edwards, 1939

)

fagineus Edwards, 1939

)

grisescens Edwards, 1939

)

impunctatus Goetghebuer, 1920

)

newsteadi Austen, 1921

pulicaris (Linnaeus, 1758)

)

punctatus (Meigen, 1804)

)

Monoculicoides Khalaf, 1954

longicollis Glukhova, 1971

nubeculosus (Meigen, 1830)

)

parroti Kieffer, 1922

)

puncticollis (Becker, 1903)

riethi Kieffer, 1914

(

)

stigma (Meigen, 1818)

)

Oecacta Poey, 1851

achrayi Kettle & Lawson, 1955

)

albicans (Winnertz, 1852)

)

alazanicus Dzhafarov, 1961

(

)

brunnicans Edwards, 1939

)

cameroni Campbell & Pelham-Clinton, 1960

comosioculatus Tokunaga, 1956

)

dispersus Gutsevich & Smatov, 1966

duddingstoni Kettle & Lawson, 1955

(

)

dzhafarovi Remm, 1967

(

)

fascipennis (Staeger, 1839)

)

festivipennis Kieffer, 1914

)

furcillatus Callot, Kremer & Paradis, 1962

(

)

haranti Rioux, Descous & Pech, 1959

(

)

heliophilus Edwards, 1921

)

jurensis Callot, Kremer & Deduit, 1962

(

)

kibunensis Tokunaga, 1937

)

maritimus Kieffer, 1924

)

minutissimus (Zetterstedt, 1855)

)

pallidicornis Kieffer, 1919

)

pictipennis (Staeger, 1939)

)

pseudoheliophilus Callot & Kremer, 1961

(

)

reconditus Campbell & Pelham-Clinton, 1960

)

segnis Campbell & Pelham-Clinton, 1960

)

semimaculatus Clastrier, 1958

(

)

shaklawensis Khalaf, 1957

(

)

simulator Edwards, 1939

(

)

subfasciipennis Kieffer, 1919

)

truncorum Edwards, 1939

(

)

ustinovi Shevchenko, 1962

)

vexans (Staeger, 1839)

)

vidourlensis Kremer, Molet & Bach, 1968

(

)

zhogolevi Remm, 1968

Pontoculicoides Remm, 1968

saevus Kieffer, 1922

slovacus Országh, 1969

tauricus Gutsevich, 1959

(

)

CERATOPOGONINI

Allohelea Kieffer, 1917

in PCV2 in tribe Stilobezziini [1], as subgenus of Monohelea [16]

tesselata (Zetterstedt, 1850)

Alluaudomyia Kieffer, 1913

needhami Thomsen, 1935

(

)

riparia Clastrier, 1978

(

)

in PCV2 as A. falcata Knoz & Ratajský, 1987 [9]

splendida (Winnertz, 1852)

)

Brachypogon Kieffer, 1899

Brachypogon s. str.

vitiosus (Winnertz, 1852)

Isohelea Kieffer, 1917

incompletus (Kieffer, 1925)

)

nitidulus (Edwards, 1921)

)

perpusillus (Edwards, 1921)

)

sociabilis (Goetghebuer, 1920)

)

Ceratopogon Meigen, 1803

communis Meigen, 1804

)

grandiforceps (Kieffer, 1913)

)

lacteipennis Zetterstedt, 1838

)

naccinervis Borkent, 1997

)

in PCV2 as C. crassinervis (Goetghebuer, 1920) [2]

niveipennis Meigen, 1804

)

Ceratoculicoides Wirth & Ratanaworabhan, 1971

moravicus Knoz, 1987

(

)

Kolenohelea de Meillon & Wirth, 1981

in PCV2 in tribe Stilobezziini [1]

calcarata (Goetghebuer, 1920)

)

Monohelea Kieffer, 1917

in PCV2 in tribe Stilobezziini [1]

estonica Remm, 1965

)

Schizohelea Kieffer, 1917

in PCV2 in tribe Stilobezziini [1], as subgenus of Stilobezzia [16]

leucopeza (Meigen, 1804)

)

Serromyia Meigen, 1818

in PCV2 in tribe Stilobezziini [1]

atra (Meigen, 1818)

)

femorata (Meigen, 1804)

)

ledicola Kieffer, 1925

(

)

morio (Fabricius, 1775)

)

rufitarsis (Meigen, 1818)

)

subinermis Kieffer, 1919

(

)

Stilobezzia Kieffer, 1911

Acanthohelea Kieffer, 1917

in PCV2 in tribe Stilobezziini [1]

gracilis (Haliday, 1833)

)

ochracea (Winnertz, 1852)

)

Stilobezzia s. str.

in PCV2 in tribe Stilobezziini [1]

antennalis (Coquillett, 1901)

(

)

flavirostris (Winnertz, 1852)

)

HETEROMYIINI

Neurohelea Kieffer, 1925

luteitarsis (Waltl, 1837)

)

SPHAEROMIINI

Macropeza Meigen, 1818

albitarsis Meigen, 1818

)

Mallochohelea Wirth, 1962

inermis (Kieffer, 1909)

)

nitida (Macquart, 1826)

)

remota (Kieffer, 1919)

setigera (Loew, 1864)

)

Nilobezzia Kieffer, 1921

posticata (Zetterstedt, 1850)

)

Probezzia Kieffer, 1906

seminigra (Panzer, 1796)

(

)

Sphaeromias Curtis, 1829

fasciatus (Meigen, 1804)

)

pictus (Meigen, 1818)

)

in PCV2 also as S. miricornis (Kieffer, 1919) [12]

PALPOMYIINI

Bezzia Kieffer, 1899

Bezzia s. str.

coracina (Zetterstedt, 1850)

)

flavicornis (Staeger, 1839)

)

gracilipes (Winnertz,1852)

nobilis (Winnertz, 1852)

)

ornata (Meigen, 1830)

)

pygmaea Goetghebuer, 1920

)

signata (Meigen, 1804)

(

)

winnertziana Kieffer, 1919

(

)

Homobezzia Macfie, 1932

annulipes (Meigen, 1830)

)

bicolor (Meigen, 1804)

)

bohemica Kieffer, 1919

)

solstitialis (Winnertz, 1852)

)

in PCV2 as H. circumdata (Staeger, 1839) [2]

leucogaster Zetterstedt, 1850

(

)

in PCV2 as H. xanthocephala Goetghebuer, 1911 [2]

xanthogaster (Kieffer, 1919)

(

)

Pygobezzia Remm, 1974

albicornis (Meigen, 1818)

)

Palpomyia Meigen, 1818

in PCV2 all species in subgenus Palpomyia s. str. [2]

armata Kieffer, 1921

(

)

brachialis (Haliday, 1833)

)

distincta (Haliday, 1833)

)

flavipes (Meigen, 1804)

)

fulva (Macquart, 1826)

)

globulifera Remm, 1971

)

infuscata Kieffer, 1919

lineata (Meigen, 1804)

)

luteifemorata Edwards, 1926

)

melacheira Remm, 1976

)

miki Goetghebuer, 1934

nigridorsum Kieffer, 1919

(

)

nigripecta Kieffer, 1919

nigripes (Meigen, 1830)

)

praeusta (Loew, 1869)

rufipes (Meigen, 1818)

semiermis Goetghebuer, 1914

(

)

serripes (Meigen, 1818)

)

spinipes (Panzer, 1806)

)

tibialis (Meigen, 1818)

(

)

tinctipennis Kieffer, 1919

(

)

Phaenobezzia Haeselbarth, 1965

rubiginosa (Winnertz, 1852)

(

)

DASYHELEINAE

Dasyhelea Kieffer, 1911

Dasyhelea s. str.

dufouri (Laboulbène, 1869)

)

lignicola Kieffer, 1919

(

)

malleola Remm, 1962

(

)

pallidiventris (Goethgebuer, 1831)

)

paludicola Kieffer, 1925

(

)

paragrata Remm, 1972

(

)

saxicola (Edwards, 1929)

)

septuosa Borken, in Borkent & Wirth, 1997

)

versicolor (Winnertz, 1852)

(

)

zavreli Kieffer, 1918

)

Dicryptoscena Enderlein, 1936

fulvosa Remm, 1967

)

modesta (Winnertz, 1852)

)

notata Goetghebuer, 1920

)

in PCV2 as D. semistriata Goetghebuer, 1921 and D. inclusa Kieffer, 1918 [12]

stellata Remm, 1967

(

)

Prokempia Kieffer, 1913

dampfi Kieffer, 1925

)

flaviventris (Goetghebuer, 1910)

(

)

lutea Remm, 1968

)

luteiventris Goetghebuer, 1934

)

Pseudoculicoides Malloch, 1915

arenivaga Macfie, 1943

)

ermeri Remm, 1967

)

europea Remm, 1962

)

fasciigera Kieffer, 1925

)

flavoscutellata (Zetterstedt, 1850)

)

punctiventris Goetghebuer, 1940

)

sericata (Winnertz, 1852)

)

turficola Kieffer, 1925

)

Sebessia Remm, 1979

acuminata Kieffer, 1919

(

)

FORCIPOMYIINAE

Atrichopogon Kieffer, 1906

Atrichopogon s. str.

aethiops (Goetghebuer, 1920)

erroneously omitted in ECV1

alveolatus Nielsen, 1951

)

brunnipes (Meigen, 1804)

)

fuscus (Meigen, 1804)

)

griseolus (Zetterstedt, 1855)

)

hirtidorsum Remm, 1961

)

infuscus Goetghebuer, 1929

)

minutus (Meigen, 1830)

)

pavidus (Winnertz, 1852)

(

)

tatricus Remm, 1981

thienemanni Kieffer, 1921

transversalis Kieffer, 1918

unilineatus Remm, 1967

(

)

Lophomyidium Cordero, 1929

fusculus (Coquillet, 1901)

)

rostratus (Winnertz, 1852)

)

Meloehelea Wirth, 1956

lucorum (Meigen, 1818)

)

oedemerarum Storå, 1939

)

orbicularis Kieffer, 1919

setosipennis (Kieffer, 1911)

)

winnertzi Goetghebuer, 1922

)

in PCV2 as M. meloesugans Kieffer, 1922 [2]

Psammopogon Remm, 1979

albiscapula Kieffer, 1918

flaveolus Zilahi-Sebess, 1936

)

flavolineatus (Strobl, 1880)

)

in PCV2 as P. trifasciatus Kieffer, 1918 [2]

muelleri (Müller, 1905)

)

Psilokempia Enderlein, 1936

appendiculatus (Goetghebuer, 1920)

forcipatus (Winnertz, 1852)

)

maculatus (Lundström, 1910)

Forcipomyia Meigen, 1818

Caloforcipomyia Saunders, 1956

glauca Macfie, 1934

)

Euprojoannisia Brèthes, 1914

alacris (Winnertz, 1852)

)

borealis Remm, 1966

(

)

palustris (Meigen, 1804)

)

in PCV2 as F. hirtipennis (Malloch, 1915) [2]

phlebotomoides Bangerter, 1933

)

titillans (Winnertz, 1852)

)

Forcipomyia s. str.

altaica Remm, 1972

(

)

apricans (Kieffer, 1919)

bipunctata (Linnaeus, 1767)

)

brevipennis (Macquart, 1828)

)

ciliata (Winnertz, 1852)

)

costata (Zetterstedt, 1838)

(

)

in PCV2 as F. picea (Winnertz, 1852) [2]

crassipes (Winnertz, 1852)

(

)

hygrophila Kieffer, 1925

)

kaltenbachii (Winnertz, 1852)

)

lugubris (Zetterstedt, 1855)

)

nigra (Winnertz, 1852)

)

nigrans Remm, 1962

)

pallida (Winnertz, 1852)

(

)

pulchrithorax Edwards, 1924

)

radicicola Edwards, 1924

)

sahariensis Kieffer, 1923

(

)

sphagnophila Kiefer, 1925

)

squamigera Kieffer, 1916

(

)

tenuis (Winnertz, 1852)

)

tenuisquama Kieffer, 1924

)

tuzeti W. & N. Huttel, 1952

)

Lasiohelea Kieffer, 1921

sibirica (Bujanova, 1962)

(

)

velox (Winnertz, 1852)

)

Lepidohelea Kieffer, 1917

tibialis Remm, 1961

)

Microhelea Kieffer, 1917

albostylus Remm, 1979

(

)

fuliginosa (Meigen, 1818)

)

longisetosa Krivosheina & Remm, 1973

(

)

pallidipes Santos Abreu, 1918

(

)

in PCV2 as M. rustica (Kieffer, 1919) [2]

suberis Clastrier, 1956

(

)

Panhelea Remm, 1980

brevicubita (Goetghebuer, 1920)

(

)

Synthyridomyia Saunders, 1956

acidicola (Tokunaga, 1937)

)

murina (Winnertz, 1852)

)

Thyridomyia Saunders, 1925

frutetorum (Winnertz, 1852)

)

microcera (Kieffer, 1919)

monilicornis (Coquillett, 1905)

)

Trichohelea Goetghebuer, 1920

eques (Johannsen, 1908)

)

tonnoiri (Goetghebuer, 1920)

)

Ceratopogonidae Newman, 1834

Andrea Tóthová1 & Jan Knoz2

1 Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlářská 2, CZ-611 37 Brno, Czech Republic; tothova@sci.muni.cz 2 Arménská 13, CZ-625 00 Brno-Bohunice, Czech Republic; jknoz@seznam.cz

Andrea Tóthová¹ & Jan Knoz²

¹Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlářská 2, CZ-611 37 Brno, Czech Republic; tothova@sci.muni.cz
² Arménská 13, CZ-625 00 Brno-Bohunice, Czech Republic; jknoz@seznam.cz