TY - JOUR A1 - Wirth, Willis W. T1 - The western hemisphere species of the predaceous midge Genus Echinohelea, with descriptions of six new species (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) T2 - Insecta mundi : a journal of world insect systematics N2 - There are four previously described species of the genus Echinohelea Kieffer in the Western Hemisphere. The following species are described as NEW SPECIES: aitkeni from Brazil, blantoni and panamensis from Panama, jamaicensis from Jamaica, and leei and neotropica from Colombia. Echinoideshelea NEW SUBGENUS is described with E. aitkeni n. sp. as type-species. The hitherto unknown pupal stage of the genus is described fro E. lanei Wirth, which was reared from a pond margin in New York, USA. Diagnoses are presented for the genus Echinohelea and the subgenus Echinoideshelea, a key is given for the identification of the 11 species, descriptions or diagnoses are given for all species, and diagnostic characters of the male genitalia are illustrated. Y1 - 1994 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/15018 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1159428 VL - 08 IS - 3-4 SP - 227 EP - 242 PB - Center for Systematic Entomology CY - Gainesville, Fla. ER -