﻿HELEID 
  MIDGES, 
  GENUS 
  MONOHELEA 
  — 
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  153 
  

  

  13. 
  Monohelea 
  {Monohelea) 
  johannseni, 
  new 
  species 
  

  

  Figures 
  18, 
  g, 
  k, 
  I; 
  19, 
  a 
  

  

  Monohelea 
  tessellata, 
  Johannsen, 
  not 
  Zetterstedt 
  (misidentification) 
  , 
  Ann. 
  Ent. 
  

   Soc. 
  Amer., 
  vol. 
  36, 
  p. 
  781, 
  1943 
  (Alabama). 
  

  

  Diagnostic 
  characters. 
  — 
  A 
  dark 
  brown 
  species 
  with 
  large 
  pruinose 
  

   gray 
  mesonotal 
  markings, 
  black 
  scutellum 
  and 
  legs, 
  and 
  maculate 
  

  

  WIQgS. 
  

  

  Description. 
  — 
  Female: 
  Length 
  1.5 
  mm., 
  wing 
  1.2 
  mm. 
  by 
  0.5 
  mm. 
  

   Closely 
  resembling 
  M. 
  (M.) 
  nebulosa 
  (Coquillett) 
  but 
  smaller, 
  the 
  

   mesonotum 
  dark 
  brown 
  with 
  large, 
  irregular, 
  pruinose 
  gray 
  areas, 
  the 
  

   scutellum 
  entirely 
  blackish 
  and 
  with 
  four 
  long 
  and 
  several 
  shorter 
  

   marginal 
  hairs. 
  Proportions 
  of 
  hind 
  leg 
  of 
  female 
  as 
  in 
  table 
  1, 
  hmd 
  

   tarsi 
  with 
  one 
  basal 
  and 
  two 
  distal 
  spines 
  on 
  fu'st 
  segment, 
  two 
  spines 
  

   at 
  tip 
  of 
  second 
  and 
  occassionally 
  two 
  spines 
  at 
  apices 
  of 
  third 
  and 
  

   fourth 
  segments; 
  inner 
  claw 
  on 
  hind 
  leg 
  of 
  female 
  about 
  a 
  thu'd 
  as 
  

   long 
  as 
  outer. 
  Wing 
  as 
  in 
  nebulosa, 
  but 
  the 
  markings 
  behind 
  vein 
  

   iVli 
  much 
  fainter 
  than 
  those 
  on 
  anterior 
  part 
  of 
  wing. 
  Spermathecae 
  

   two, 
  subequal, 
  oval, 
  each 
  with 
  very 
  short, 
  sclerotized 
  duct. 
  

  

  Male 
  genitalia 
  as 
  in 
  nebulosa, 
  but 
  the 
  parameres 
  simple, 
  without 
  

   the 
  sub-basal 
  ventral 
  tooth, 
  and 
  distinctly 
  and 
  abruptly 
  bent 
  mesad 
  

   at 
  distal 
  fifth. 
  

  

  Types.— 
  Roloiype, 
  9, 
  USNM 
  61095, 
  Falls 
  Church, 
  Vkginia, 
  July 
  8, 
  

   1950, 
  Wirth. 
  Allotype, 
  Innerarity 
  Point, 
  Escambia 
  County, 
  Florida, 
  

   Apr. 
  29, 
  1949, 
  Kathert. 
  Paratypes: 
  Virginia: 
  2 
  99, 
  Mountain 
  Lake, 
  

   July 
  15, 
  1938, 
  July 
  21, 
  1940, 
  L. 
  and 
  M. 
  Mihie. 
  Florida: 
  4 
  cf 
  cf 
  , 
  5 
  99, 
  

   same 
  data 
  as 
  allotype 
  except 
  date 
  April 
  and 
  May 
  1949; 
  1 
  9, 
  Santa 
  

   Rosa, 
  Walton 
  County, 
  May 
  5, 
  1950, 
  Peterson. 
  Alabama: 
  1 
  9, 
  La- 
  

   Place, 
  June 
  9, 
  1917, 
  Bradley. 
  Michigan: 
  1 
  9, 
  Cheboygan 
  County, 
  

   July 
  17, 
  1942, 
  Sabrosky. 
  Iowa: 
  1 
  9, 
  Pikes 
  Peak 
  State 
  Park, 
  Clayton 
  

   County, 
  July 
  4, 
  1949, 
  Laffoon. 
  

  

  