Diptera

(Mosquitoes & Flies)

 Photogallery: 

Synonyms:  Deinocerites spanius (Dyar & Knab)
                                           (Breland 1952; Carpenter & LaCasse 1953; Eads, Menzies & Ogden 1951; Eads & Strom 1957; Fisk
                                             1941; Fisk & LeVan 1940; Hill, Smittle & Philips 1958; McGregor & Eads 1943; Randolf & O'Neill
                                             1944)

1940 Fisk & LeVan
1941 Fisk
1943 McGregor & Eads
1944 Randolf & O'Neill

1951 Eads Menzies Ogden
[1953 Carpenter & LaCasse]
1956 Breland
1957 Eads & Strom
1958 Hill Smittle Philips

[1963 Dodge]
[1965 Wiseman]

[1981 Darcie & Ward]
[1983 Stone]

2001 Walter Reed
          Biosystematics Unit
2005 Darsie & Ward

[ ] indicate state record, no specific county or locality indicated

notes:

-First Texas Record reported as Deinocerites spanius by Fisk & LeVan (1940)

-larvae in the holes of fiddler crabs (Fisk & LeVan 1940) during spring & summer (McGregor & Eads 1943)

-reported from south (Dodge 1963) and extreme south Texas (Darsie & Ward 2005)