Culicoides (Beltranmyia) mississippiensis Hoffman Culicoides mississippiensis Hoffman, 1926: 158 (Mississippi). Culicoides (Beltranmyia) mississippiensis: Vargas 1953: 34; Blanton and Wirth 1979: 119 (Florida records); Wilkening et al. 1985: 520 (Florida records); Borkent and Grogan 2009: 13 (in Nearctic catalog; distribution). Discussion. This species inhabits coastal areas along the Gulf of Mexico from Florida to Texas and was listed by Wilkening et al. (1985) from 22 Florida counties including Wakulla Co. We provide additional records from Wakulla Co. New records. Wakulla Co., Wakulla Springs State Park, spring 300 m E of Wakulla Spring, 25 May 2004, S. Murphree, NJ light trap, 1 female; same data except UV wand, 1 female (BUTC).

Published as part of William L. Grogan, Jr., Hribar, Lawrence J., Murphree, C. Steven & Cilek, James E., 2010, New records of biting and predaceous midges from Florida, including species new to the fauna of the United States (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), pp. 1-59 in Insecta Mundi 2010 (147) on page 26, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5352908