Greetings to you all. The first portion 1997 has been quite productive from our review of the literature on Ceratopogonidae, and notes from other scientists. The Biting Fly Workshop and Livestock Insects meetings from all reports continue to provide good opportunities for interaction among the group.

    Planning is underway and there will be a Ceratopogonidae Section at the 4^th International Congress of Dipterology, to be held at Oxford University, England in September 1998. Please begin making plans to attend now.

    I regret to pass the news of the death of Dr. Jean Clastrier, 87, on March 20th 1997. He was a specialist of Ceratopogonidae of the world, he contributed during his whole life to the knowledge and systematics of these insects. He worked in the Laboratory of Entomology in the National Museum of Natural History in Paris. Drs. J.C. Delecolle and Henri Callot have provided a brief note and listing of all Dr. Clastrier's publications.

    I have received research updates from a number of scientists for this issue. Appreciate the excellent participation by all contributors. I encourage each of you to continue your efforts to communicate via the CIE.

    I want to apologize for including only the first authors of the some of the papers in the Compilation of Recent Literature in the May 1996 (No. 57) issue. Some of the new computer literature search engines give only the name of the first author, and thus my mistake. For example on p. 5 of the issue above, the citation should be as:

Blackwell, A., P.S. Mellor, and W. Mordue. 1996. Methods for Enhancing the Blood-feeding Response of Field-Collected Culicoides impunctatus (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). J. Medical Entomol. 33: 504-506.

    As we continue to use the communication power of the Internet, we may be able to correspond more via e-mail. A listing of your e-mail addresses is enclosed and will be updated in a future issues of the CIE. Please let me know of your activities in your Ceratopogonid work for the next CIE issue due out in November.

                                                                        Thanks and best regards,
                                                                        Daniel V. Hagan, Ph.D.
Summary of CIE Contents:
Announcements .................................................... 2
Contributions from Cerat. Scientists ...................... 3
Note on the Death of Dr. Jean Clastrier ................ 6
Listing of publications of Dr. J. Clastrier ................ 6
Recent Literature on Ceratopogonidae ................ 10

For CIE Participants, please send me your e-mail address to dhagan@GaSoU.edu As a service to you ,we pass on this listing of addresses for individuals active in Ceratopogonidae work.

    The scientific program will include plenary sessions, sections, workshops and poster sessions. The general areas of interest are: Morphology, physiology and ultrastructure; Medical, veterinary and forensic Diptera; Agricultural Diptera; Behavior and ecology; Biodiversity and conservation; Advances in systematics; Cytology and genetics; Control; and Collections and databases.

Sections will be organized according to the level of interest in individual topics. Taxon-based workshops will be arranged as in previous Congresses, based on the interests expressed by delegates. There will be a Ceratopogonidae Section.

Correspondence  If you are interested in participating in the Congress, please register your interest by writing or sending an e-mail to the Congress administrator, Oxford International.

Letters of invitation On request, the secretariat of the Congress will send a personal invitation for participation in the Congress. It should be understood that such an invitation is only meant to help visitors raise travel funds or to obtain a visa, and is not a commitment on the part of the organizers to provide financial support.

Accommodations in Keble College, where a range of student study-bedrooms is available. In addition, there are several good hotels nearby.

Meetings Plenary sessions and an informal reception will be held in the Oxford University Museum, and the opening reception will be in Oxford Town Hall.

Social program The historic city of Oxford and its surroundings has much to offer the visitor. Many buildings date back to the 12^th and 13^th centuries. A guided walking tour of Oxford, the colleges and museums, a visit to Blenheim Palace, a day trip to Stratford upon Avon with a performance by the Royal Shakespeare Company are among the social events on offer to Congress delegates. Other pre- or post-Congress visits and tours can be arranged.

Field and laboratory visits In addition to the social program, a number of field trips will be on offer, in the Oxford area or further afield. Liaison for visits to museums, research institutes and other academic or professional organizations can be arranged.

Costs Provisional costs are as follows: The registration fee will be in the order of GBP190. The cost of accommodation for six nights in Keble College (bed, breakfast, lunch) will be from GBP 222-252, with dinner also available in Keble at GBP13 each night. Hotel accommodation for six nights will be from GBP600-720 per person, bed & breakfast.

Addresses for correspondence:
Chairman: Dr R. P. Lane, Department of Entomology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK. Phone: +44 171 938 9474; Fax: +44 171 938 8937; Email: r.lane@nhm.ac.uk

Congress Administration: Catherine Hughes, ICD4, Oxford International, Summertown Pavilion, Middle Way, Oxford OX2 7LG, UK. Phone: +44 1865 511550; Fax: +44 1865 511570; Email: 101475.1765@compuserve.com

The Congress URL (address) for those have access to the World-Wide Web is:
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/entomology/diptcong.html

    There will be a Ceratopogonidae Section at the 4^th INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF DIPTEROLOGY. The Organizers of the Ceratopogonidae Section are Alison Blackwell (UK), John P.T. Boorman (UK) and Daniel V. Hagan (USA). If you have suggestions and are interested in participating please give send one of us an e-mail or regular mail. See Alison's and DVH's e-mail address on page 1. John can be reached at: 6 Beckingham Road, Guildford, Surrey GU2 6BN, UK.

    The 1998 Biting Fly Workshop will be held June 13-15, 1998, hosted by the Department of Biology of Georgia Southern University (Drs. Sturgis McKeever, Frank French and Dan Hagan) at Blackwater Falls State Park Lodge, Davis, West Virginia. The Lodge is 73 miles from Morgantown, WV and 103 miles from Cumberland, Maryland. U.S. Air has commuter flights from Pittsburgh, PA to both cities. Lodge rooms have two beds - either two doubles or a double and single. In 1997, rooms are $ 57.00/night for those 60+ yrs of age and $ 64.00/night if less than 60, for two adults/room. The lodge is located on the east rim of Blackwater Canyon and has a large dining room, a large reading and discussion room and a conference room. The Park has 1,688 acres, and except for the canyon is relatively flat. Most of the area is covered with deciduous forest with some red spruce. There is a small lake surrounded by several acres of grassy vegetation and there is a small grassy area near the lodge.

    The main collecting area will be at Canaan Valley Resort Park, which has 6,015 acres and is 10 miles from Blackwater Lodge. Canaan has extensive meadows, stream bottoms, marshes, deciduous forest, red spruce forests and beaver impoundments. Deer are abundant and provide plentiful food source for biting flies. There is an 18-hole golf course with a clubhouse where lunch is served-quickly. Collecting permits are required at both Blackwater and Canaan and will be obtained for all registered participants.

    Another collecting site is Dolly Sods, a large grassy area on top of the mountain which forms the Allegheny Front. In addition to the grassy area there is an extensive area (1,000+ acres) of heaths and sphagnum bogs surrounded by deciduous and red spruce. The area (controlled by the U.S. Forest Service) is accessible by a gravel road which leads from the paved road between Blackwater and Canaan.

For additional information you may write:
    Biting Fly Workshop 1998
    ATTN: French, McKeever, Hagan
    Dept. of Biology
    Georgia Southern University
    Statesboro, GA 30460-8042

Or you may send e-mail to: French@GaSoU.edu
                        Or dhagan@GaSoU.edu

    The recipient of the 1997 North American Dipterist's Society (NADS) Award is Dr. J. Richard Vockeroth. Dr. Vockeroth was presented the prestigious award the 5^th Biennial meeting of the NADS at New Ebenezer Retreat and Conference Center, Rincon, Georgia. The C.P. Alexander Award recognizes the generous and self-less entomological contributions of its recipient over a life-time of service. Dick worked for many years, and has retired from the Biosystematics Research Institute, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Congratulations to Dick Vockeroth for this well deserved recognition.

1997 Biting Fly Workshop

    Congratulations and thanks to Dr. Wayne Kramer, Nebraska Department of Health, Lincoln NE for hosting a great meeting. The accommodation and venue were fantastic. The beauty and diversity of habitats at Niobrara Valley Preserve were all that Wayne indicated and more. There were some very interesting research updates from various researchers, (e.g., USDA/ARS Lab in Laramie, Wyoming; Auburn University, Alabama; Montana State University, Bozeman MT; Salisbury State University, Maryland; etc.).

    Info for the CIE; just wanted to pass along a note about a recent paper:

Borkent, A. 1996. Biting midges (Ceratopogonidae: Diptera) feeding on a leatherback turtle in Costa Rica. Brenesia 43-44:25-30 (1995).

    Also my world catalog of Ceratopogonidae, with Bill Wirth as coauthor, is now in press and should be appearing sometime this summer or perhaps early fall.
    Borkent, A. and W.W. Wirth. (in press). World Species of Biting Midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History.

    My research this past winter has focused primarily on an analysis of Lebanese amber Ceratopogonidae, based on 118 specimens. A first draft of the manuscript is being reviewed and the paper will be submitted as a Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. I recently received a fresh collection of New Jersey amber Ceratopogonidae and am writing up a supplement to my 1996 analysis of other ceratopogonids from that same deposit.

    Aside from the world catalog mentioned elsewhere, I have two other papers in press. One is a description of a few Cretaceous amber fossils from Austria and Hungary and a redescription of a compression fossil from Australia (in Stutt. Beit. Naturk.). The second is an appraisal of the Santos Abreu collection from the Canary Islands (in Deut. Ent. Zeit.)

    I am continuing some small revisions on Neurohelea, Neurobezzia, Baeodasymyia (including at least 2 new species and a description of the immature stages) and Baeohelea and hope to finish these by late fall. My work on world keys to the larvae and pupae at the generic level is also progressing at a steady rate. Finally, I am pressing ahead with a fresh phylogenetic analysis of the Ceratopogonidae (partially based, for the first time, on immatures) at the generic level.

Subject: Web Version of Fly Times

    The Fly Times newsletter, starting with Issue 18, April 1997, is now available on the World Wide Web at the following site:
        http://res.agr.ca/ecorc/program2/entomology/flytimes/flytime.htm.
Future issues will go online simultaneously with the distribution of hardcopies every April and October.
    Also, the Directory of North American Dipterists is now available on the web at the following address:
        http://res.agr.ca/ecorc/program2/entomology/diptera/dipteras.htm.
    The Directory currently lists addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, email addresses, and interests. It will be updated by Jeff Cumming on a regular basis every few months.
    North American Dipterists wishing to contribute to future issues of Fly Times should contact Jeff Cumming at cummingjm@em.agr.ca, or Art Borkent at aborkent@jetstream.net.
        Jeff Cumming & Art Borkent are Co-editors.

    Passing on this abstract on our current work on the:
"Duration of repellency of various synthetic and plant derived preparations for Culicoides imicola Kieffer (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) the vector of African horse sickness." By Y. Braverman and A. Chizov-Ginzburg.

    The study was conducted in order to find a safer and longer lasting repellent than di-ethyl-toluamide (deet), to validate whether the current recommendations in Israel for application of repellents during an outbreak of Culicoides imicola Kieffer borne pathogens are justified, and to test friendly plant derived preparations without detrimental side effects, as potential replacements for the synthetic repellents. Of the seven tested repellents those inferior to deet were: oregano and herbipet® which showed a slight non-significant rpellency for two hours, tritech®-14 which showed significant (P<0.05) repellency with respect to controls for two hours and stomoxin® which showed significant (P<0.05) repellency for only one hour. As the active ingredient of stomoxin is permethrin it proves that recommendations to spray animals with this insecticide to prevent the spread of C. imicola borne pathogens will not be useful. The repellents superior to deet were: the plant derived material Ag1000 that repelled significantly (P<0.05) with respect to controls up to four hours in a similar pattern but somewhat more than deet, and pyrethroid-T which exerted significant (P<0.05) repellency for nine hours. Pyrethroid-T proved to be the best repellent tested and if sprayed nightly might provide protection from C. imicola borne pathogens.

    I have available some extra copies of: The North American Predaceous Midges of the Genus Palpomyia Meigen (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), by Grogan & Wirth (1979, Memoirs Ent. Soc. Wash. No. 8, 125 pp.). If anyone on the CIE list or anyone else would like a copy, please send me a note or by e-mail me at: wlgrogan@sae.ssu.edu, and I will be glad to send them a copy.

    Passing along a note re: 1997 Livestock Insects Workers Conference. This July 20-23, 1997 (Sunday through Wednesday) the University of California is hosting the 41st Annual Livestock Insect Workers Conference at the Hyatt Islandia Hotel on Mission Bay in San Diego. This year's meeting is being coordinated by Brad Mullens and Nancy Hinkle of the Department of Entomology, UC Riverside. The meeting attracts entomologists, parasitologists and veterinarians mainly from North America, but with international participation, as well. About half are from academia, 30% from governmental units such as USDA, and 20% from industry. The focus of the meeting is control of arthropods affecting livestock and poultry.

    We will have a 20 July symposium (afternoon) on quantitative field ecology techniques as applied to veterinary entomology problems which will help us determine how best to sample arthropods and interpret the data we gather. Monday morning we will have two wildlife-oriented talks, including discussion of quarantine problems and conservation concerns for exotic wildlife parasites and their implications for U.S. livestock and poultry industries.

    Room rates are $110/night (single or double occupancy), and registration costs are likely to be around $150. If you would like more information, please contact NHinkle@citrus.ucr.edu or Brad Mullens, Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521.

    Saludos,
    My main interest is in the study of the ceratopogonids of Mexico. I have worked on the collection of ceratopogonids of the Instituto Nacional de Diagnostico y Referencia Epidemiologicos (INDRE), and hope to finally complete the collection of all the ceratopogonids of Mexico. The collection of the INDRE contains the major part of the material collected by Alfonso Dampf and L. Vargas. My future plans are to publish the ceratopogonid contents of the INDRE collection. I actually have worked only on the ceratopogonid fauna of the Reservas of the Biosfera of Ría Lagartos and Ría Celestún, in the Yucatán, México. And I plan in the future to redescribe the species of Vargas and Macfie with descriptions of the material from Mexico.

    In cooperation with Drs. William L. Grogan, Jr. and Dan Hagan, a chapter on predaceous midges of the tribes Heteromyiini and Sphaeromiini of Ceratopogonidae in North America was published in Vol. 18, Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Washington. The volume was dedicated to Dr. W.W. Wirth.

    In cooperation with Deborah S. Brickle and Dan Hagan, a manuscript entitled "Mouthparts, antennae and genitalia of intersex Culicoides stellifer parasitized by mermithid nematodes." was submitted and accepted for publication in Medical and Veterinary Entomology.

    I wanted to note that Amit Bhasin recently earned his Ph.D. and is writing up his research papers on host location cues in C. impunctatus. I am continuing to collaborate with Dr. John Dallas on the molecular taxonomy of the C. imicola complex in southern Europe.

Dear Collegues,

    We regret to pass the news of the death of Dr. Jean Clastrier, 87, on March 20th 1997. Well known specialist of Ceratopogonidae of the whole world, he contributed during his whole life to the knowledge and systematics of these insects. Within the "Laboratoire d'Entomologie du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle" on the 45 rue de Buffon, in Paris, he carried on his research activities with passion well after he retired and until his very last days. His contribution will remain an inestimable reference.

PUBLICATIONS OF DR. JEAN CLASTRIER:

Clastrier, J. 1956. Notes sur les Ceratopogonides. I. Quatre Forcipomyia d'Algerie et de Tunisie. Archives de l'Institut Pasteur d'Algerie, 34 (4): 496-512.

Clastrier, J. 1957. Notes sur les Ceratopogonides. II. Quelques Culicoides d'Algerie a ailes tachetees. Archives de l'lnstitut Pasteur d'Algerie, 35 (4): 404-444.

Clastrier, J. 1958. Notes sur les Ceratopogonides. III. Culicoides semimaculatus n. sp., d'Algerie. Archives de l'Institut Pasteur d'Algerie, 36 (1): 55-60.

Clastrier, J. 1958. Notes sur les Ceratopogonides. IV. Ceratopogonides d'Afrique Occidentale Française. Archives de l'lnstitut Pasteur d'Algerie, 36 (2): 192-258.

Clastrier, J. 1958. Notes sur les Ceratopogonides. V. Ceratopogonides d'Afrique Occidentale Française (2). Archives de l'lnstitut Pasteur d'Algerie, 36 (4): 487-505.

Clastrier, J. 1959. Notes sur les Ceratopogonides. VI. Ceratopogonides d'Afrique Occidentale Française (3). Archives de l'lnstitut Pasteur d'Algerie, 37 (1): 167-197.

Clastrier, J. 1959. Notes sur les Ceratopogonides. VII. Ceratopogonides d'Afrique Occidentale Française (4). Archives de l'lnstitut Pasteur d'Algerie, 37 (2): 340-383.

Clastrier, J. 1959. Notes sur les Ceratopogonides. VIII. Ceratopogonides de l'ile de la Reunion. Archives de l'Institut Pasteur d'Algerie, 37 (3): 412-446.

Clastrier, J. 1960. Notes sur les Ceratopogonides. IX. Ceratopogonides de la Republique du Congo. Archives de l'lnstitut Pasteur d'Algerie, 38 (1): 79-105.

Clastrier, J. 1960. Notes sur les Ceratopogonides. X. Ceratopogonides de la Republique du Congo (2). Archives de l'lnstitut Pasteur d'Algerie, 38 (2): 258-298.

Clastrier, J. 1960. Notes sur les Ceratopogonides. XI. Ceratopogonides de la Republique du Congo (3). Archives de l'Institut Pasteur d'Algerie, 38 (4): 510-526.

Clastrier, J., J.A. Rioux, & S. Descous. 1961. Notes sur les Ceratopogonides. XII. Ceratopogonides du Nord-Tchad. Archives de l'lnstitut Pasteur d'Algerie, 39 (1): 49-98.

Clastrier, J. & W.W. Wirth. 1961. Notes sur les Ceratopogonides. XIII. Ceratopogonides de la Region ethiopienne. Archives de l'lnstitut Pasteur d'Algerie, 39 (2): 190-240.

Clastrier, J. & W.W. Wirth. 1961. Notes sur les Ceratopogonides. XIV. Ceratopogonides de la Region ethiopienne (2). Archives de l'lnstitut Pasteur d'Algerie, 39 (3): 302-337.

Clastrier, J. 1961. Notes sur les Ceratopogonides. XV. Ceratopogon et Alluaudomyia de la region palearctique. Archives de l'lnstitut Pasteur d'Algerie, 39 (4): 401-440.

Clastrier, J. 1961. Le Parc National du Niokolo-Koba (Deuxieme fascicule). XVII. Diptera Ceratopogonidae. Memoires de l'lnstitut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire, 62: 257-272.

Clastrier, J. 1962. Notes sur les Ceratopogonides de la Region Palearctique. XVI. Especes nouvelles de la region palearctique, ou apparentees, du genre Bezzia Kieffer. Archives de l'lnstitut Pasteur d'Algerie, 40 (1): 53-125.

Clastrier, J. 1962. Notes sur les Ceratopogonides. XVII. Nouveaux Palpomyia Meig. et Johannsenomyia Mall. Archives de l'lnstitut Pasteur d'Algerie, 40 (2-3): 225-288.

Clastrier, J. 1963. Notes sur les Ceratopogonides. XVIII. Especes du genre Stilobezzia Kieffer ou apparentees de la Region palearctique.Archives de l'lnstitut Pasteur d'Algerie, 41 (1): 41-68.

Clastrier, J. 1966. Ceratopogonides des Iles Canaries (Diptera, Nematocera). Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France (Nouvelle Serie), 2 (3): 693-710.

Clastrier, J. 1967. Ceratopogonides des Iles Açores (Diptera, Nematocera). Boletin Museo Municipo do Funchal, 21: 5-7.

Clastrier, J. 1967. Notes sur deux Ceratopogonides du Cambodge: Styloconops spinosifrons (Carter 1921) et Stilobezzia chasteli n. sp. (Diptera, Nematocera). Bulletin de la Societe entomologique de France, 72 (3-4): 115-120.

Clastrier, J. 1968. Deux Ceratopogonides nouveaux de la Guyane Française (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae). Archives de l'lnstitut Pasteur de la Guyane Francaise, 21: 85-92.

Clastrier, J. 1971. Deux nouveaux Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) de la Guyane Française. Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparee, 46 (3): 285-294.

Clastrier, J. 1971. Isolement et description de la larve de Leptoconops (Leptoconops) irritans Noe, 1905 (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae). Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparee, 46 (6): 737-743.

Clastrier, J. 1972. Contribution a la faune du Congo (Brazzaville). Mission A. Descarpentries et A. Villiers. 103. Diptera, Ceratopogonidae. Bulletin de l'lnstitut Fondamental de l'Afrique Noire (A), 34 (1): 98-103.

Clastrier, J. 1972. Description de la larve et de la nymphe de Leptoconops (Holoconops ) kerteszi Kieffer, 1908 (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae). Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparee, 47 (2): 309-324.

Clastrier, J. 1972. Forcipomyia squamithorax n. sp. de la Guyane Française (Dipt. Ceratopogonidae). Bulletin de la Societe entomologique de France, 77 (5-6): 170-176.

Clastrier, J. 1972. Presence en Europe occidentale de Leptoconops (L.) bidentatus Gutsevich, 1960 (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae). Nouvelle Revue d'Entomologie, 2 (1): 13-20.

Clastrier, J. & M. Coluzzi. 1973. Leptoconops (Leptoconops ) bezzii (Noe, 1905) et Leptoconops (Leptoconops ) noei n. sp. (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae). Parassitologia, 15 (1-2): 47-77.

Clastrier, J. 1973. Le genre Leptoconops, sous-genre Holoconops dans le midi de la France (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae). Annales de la Societe entomologique de France (Nouvelle Serie), 9 (4): 895-920.

Clastrier, J. 1974. Leptoconops (Holoconops ) laosensis n. sp. du Sud-Est asiatique (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae). Nouvelle Revue d'Entomologie, 4 (1): 71-74.

Clastrier, J. 1974. Dasyhelea insignicornis (Kieffer, 1913) et Dasyhelea wirthi nov. n. (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae). Nouvelle Revue d'Entomologie, 4 (2): 135.

Clastrier, J. 1974. Leptoconops (Proleptoconops ) hutsoni n. sg., n. sp. du Sahara algerien septentrional (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae). Parassitologia, 16 (2-3), 231-238.

Clastrier, J. 1975. Description de quelques males d'Holoconops (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae). Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France (Nouvelle Serie), 11 (3): 587-607.

Clastrier, J. 1975. Redescription et selection d'un lectotype de Dasyhelea insignicornis (Kieffer, 1913) (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae). Bulletin de l'Institut Fondamantal d'Afrique Noire (A), 37 (3): 702-707.

Clastrier, J. 1975. Le genre Leptoconops, sous-genre Holoconops en Afrique du Nord (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae). Archives de l'Institut Pasteur d'Algerie, 50-51 (1972): 23-52.

Clastrier, J. 1976. Alluaudomyia prima n. sp. de la Guyane Française (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae). Nouvelle Revue d'Entomologie, 6 (23): 205-207.

Clastrier, J. 1976. Etude systematique du genre Stilobezzia (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae). Annales de la Societe entomologique de France (Nouvelle Serie), 12 (4): 567-578.

Clastrier, J. 1977. Systematic study of the Leptoconops kerteszi complex (abstract). Mosquito News, 37 (2): 276-277.

Clastrier, J. & W.W. Wirth. 1977. A systematic study of the Leptoconops kerteszi complex in North America (abstract). Mosquito News, 37 (2): 277.

Clastrier, J. 1977. Description d'un nouvel Alluaudomyia de la Republiqe de Guinee (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae). Nouvelle Revue d'Entomologie, 7 (3): 345-348.

Clastrier, J. & W.W. Wirth. 1978. The Leptoconops kerteszi complex in North America (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae). United States Department of Agriculture Technical Bulletin ,1573: 1-58.

Clastrier, J. 1978. Deux nouveaux Alluaudomyia de la faune française (Dipt., Ceratopogonidae). L'Entomologiste, 34 (1): 25-31.

Clastrier, J. 1979. Un nouvel Atrichopogon de la Guyane Française (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Revue Française d'Entomologie (Nouvelle Serie), 1 (1): 30-32.

Clastrier, J. & C. Raccurt. 1979. Baeodasymyia modesta n. gen. n. sp. de la Republique d'Haiti (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae). Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparee, 54 (1): 99-104.

Clastrier, J. & C. Raccurt. 1979. Quatre nouveaux Parabezzia de la Republique d'Haïti (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae). Nouvelle Revue d'Entomologie, 9 (2): 165-175.

Clastrier, J. 1980. Presence dans le midi de la France et redescription de Stilobezzia lutacea (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Revue Française d'Entomologie (Nouvelle Serie), 2 (4): 147-150.

Clastrier, J. 1981. Description d'un nouveau Leptoconops d'Israel (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae). Nouvelle Revue d'Entomologie, 11 (1): 123-126.

Clastrier, J. 1981. Note sur deux Leptoconops (s. str.) du proche Orient: l'un connu, l'autre nouveau pour la science (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae). Revue Française d'Entomologie (Nouvelle Serie), 3 (1): 31-33.

Clastrier, J. 1981. Description de trois nouveaux Holoconops de la Republique sud africaine. Bulletin de la Societe entomologique de France, 86: 87-97.

Clastrier, J. 1983. Description de deux nouvelles especes afrotropicales concernant les genres Ceratobezzia et Clinohelea (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae). Revue Française d'Entomologie (Nouvelle Serie), 5 (1): 19-26.

Clastrier, J. 1983. Ceratopogonidae des Iles Seychelles (Diptera, Nematocera). Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Serie A Zoologie, 126: 1-83.

Clastrier, J. 1983. Description de trois nouvelles especes afrotropicales de Ceratopogonidae (Dipt., Nematocera) revenant aux genres Jenkinshelea et Neosphaeromias. Annales de la Societe entomologique de France (Nouvelle Serie), 19 (3): 261-272.

Clastrier, J. 1983. Revision des especes afrotropicales du sous genre Leptoconops (s. str.) (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae). Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparee, 59 (3): 297-316.

Clastrier, J. 1983. Stenoxenus pastorianus, nouvelle espece de la Republique de Guinee: Diptera: Ceratopogonidae. Nouvelle Revue d'Entomologie, 12 (3) (1982): 293-297.

Clastrier, J. 1983. Description d'une nouvelle espece afrotropicale de Tetrabezzia (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae). Cahiers ORSTOM, Serie Entomologie Medicale et Parasitologie, 20 (4) (1982): 307-312.

Clastrier, J. 1984. Description d'une nouvelle espece afrotropicale du genre Monohelea (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae). Nouvelle Revue d'Entomologie (Nouvelle Serie), 1: 49-53.

Clastrier, J. & E.M. Nevill. 1984. Leptoconops (Leptoconops) demeilloni, a new species from the Cape Duneveld of South Africa (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae). Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa, 47: 245-250.

Clastrier, J. 1984. Schizonyxhelea guyana, nouveau genre et nouvelle espece de Guyane Française (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae). Revue Française d'Entomologie (Nouvelle Serie), 6 (1): 1-4.

Clastrier, J. 1984. Description de deux nouveaux Stilobezzia ((Diptera, Ceratopogonidae) de la region afrotropicale. Cahiers ORSTOM, Serie Entomologie Medicale et Parasitologie, 22 (1): 43-49.

Clastrier, J. 1984. Revision des especes afrotropicales du genre Echinohelea (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae) et description de trois nouvelles especs. Bulletin du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Sect. A Zoologie, 6 (2): 361-376.

Clastrier, J. 1984. Description de trois nouveaux Kolenohelea (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae) de la Republique de Guinee. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France (Nouvelle Serie), 20 (4): 365-371.

Clastrier, J. 1984. Le montage des petits insectes au Baume du Canada. Entomologiste, 40 (4): 175-181.

Clastrier, J. & J. Legrand. 1984. Forcipomyia pinheyi, nouvelle espece pour l'ile Maurice, parasite des libellules et nouvelles localites pour le sous genre (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae, Odonata). Revue Française d'Entomologie (Nouvelle Serie), 6 (4): 173-180.

Clastrier, J. 1985. Ceratopogonidae de Nouvelle-Caledonie: III. Genre Bezzia (Diptera, Nematocera). Cahiers ORSTOM, Serie Entomologie Medicale et Parasitologie, 23 (1): 45-54.

Clastrier, J. 1985. Description de trois nouveaux Stilobezzia de la Region Afrotropicale dont la nervation alaire est modifiee, apparentes a S. differens de Meillon (Dipt. Ceratopogonidae). Annales de la Societe entomologique de France (Nouvelle Serie), 21 (4): 457-465.

Clastrier, J. 1985. Ceratopogonidae de la Nouvelle Caledonie: IV. Genus Alluaudomyia (Diptera, Nematocera). Description de six especes nouvelles; simplification de l'identification des femelles. Cahiers ORSTOM, Serie Entomologie Medicale et Parasitologie, 23 (3): 187-201.

Clastrier, J. 1985. Ceratopogonidae de Nouvelle-Caledonie II. genre Monohelea (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae). Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparee, 60 (6): 747-760.

Clastrier, J. 1985. Ceratopogonidae de Nouvelle-Caledonie: I. Genres Echinohelea Macfie, Hebetula Wirth et Debenham et Heterohelea n. g. (Diptera, Nematocera). Nouvelle Revue d'Entomologie, 2 (3): 267-275.

Clastrier, J. & J. Boorman. 1986. Description de deux nouveaux Leptoconops l. s. de Bahrein (Dipt. Ceratopogonidae). Bulletin de la Societe entomologique de France, 91 (9-10): 293-300.

Clastrier, J. 1986. Description de deux nouvelles especes de Stilobezzia de Guinee (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae). Revue Française d'Entomologie (Nouvelle Serie), 8 (2): 63-68.

Clastrier, J. 1986. Stilobezzia carayoni, nouvelle espece de Guinee (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae). Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France (Nouvelle Serie), 22 (2): 284-285.

Clastrier, J. 1986. Revision des Stilobezzia Afrotropicaux decrits par M. Goetghebuer (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae). Revue de Zoologie Africaine, 100 (3): 363-384.

Clastrier, J. 1987. Note sur deux Atrichopogon du Zaïre: Atrichopogon quadrisetosus Goetghebuer et Atrichopogon yambukiensis n. sp. (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae). Revue de Zoologie Africaine, 100 (4): 423-428.

Clastrier, J. 1987. Atrichopogon ornatipennis, nouvelle espece de la Guyane française. L'Entomologiste, 43 (6): 271-274.

Clastrier, J. 1988. Description d'un genre nouveau et de trois especes nouvelles de Ceratopogonidae africains (Dipt. Nematocera). Bulletin de la Societe entomologique de France, 93 (1-2): 53-62.

Clastrier, J. 1988. Description de cinq nouvelles especes de Stilobezzia de la Republique de Guinee (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae). Nouvelle Revue d'Entomologie, 5 (2): 121-132.

Clastrier, J. 1988. Diptera Ceratopogonidae de Nouvelle Caledonie. 6. Note sur le genre Dasyhelea . Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Serie A Zoologie, 142: 75-82.

Clastrier, J. 1988. Ceratopogonidae de Nouvelle Caledonie. V. Genre Atrichopogon (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae). Cahiers ORSTOM, Serie Entomologie Medicale et Parasitologie, 25 (3-4) (1987): 193-216.

Clastrier, J. 1989. Description de cinq nouveaux Stilobezzia de Guinee (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae). Revue Française d'Entomologie (Nouvelle Serie), 11 (1): 5-14.

Clastrier, J. 1989. Ceratopogonidae de Nouvelle Caledonie: VIT. Le genre Paradasyhelea . Revue Française d'Entomologie (Nouvelle Serie), 11 (3): 133-137.

Clastrier, J. 1989. Description de trois Brachypogon nouveaux et remarquables de la Republique de Guinee (Dipt. Ceratopogonidae). Bulletin de la Societe entomologique de France, 94 (5-6): 189-196.

Clastrier, J. 1990. Description de Stilobezzia seguyi n. sp. de la republique de Guinee (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France (Nouvelle Serie), 26 (3): 399-403.

Clastrier, J. & J. Legrand. 1990. Forcipomyia (Pterobosca ) incubans Macfie and F. (Trichohelea) macheti sp. nov., parasites des ailes de libellules en Guyane française (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae; Odonata). Revue Française d'Entomologie (Nouvelle Serie), 12: 167-170.

Clastrier, J. & J.C. Delecolle. 1990. Description d'un nouveau genre et de nouvelles especes africaines des genres Allohelea Kieffer, Monohelea Kieffer, Downeshelea Wirth & Grogan, Boreohelea nov. gen. (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France (Nouvelle Serie), 26 (2): 129-157, 17 figs, 19 refs.

Clastrier, J. & J. Legrand. 1991. Forcipomyia (Trichohelea ) araneivora n. sp. ectoparasite d'une araignee habitant les monts Nimba en Guinee (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae; Araneae, Araneidae). Revue Française d'Entomologie (Nouvelle Serie), 13 (4): 155-158.

Clastrier, J. 1991. Description de Forcipomyia (Dycea ) madeira n. sp. de l'Ile de Madere, et presence en Finlande de F. (Caloforcipomyia ) glauca Macfie. Bulletin de la Societe entomologique de France, 96 (3): 261-266.

Clastrier, J. & J. Legrand. 1991. Nouvelles captures de Forcipomyia (Pterobosca ) mollipes, parasite des ailes de libellules en Côte d'Ivoire (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae; Odonata). Revue Française d'Entomologie (Nouvelle Serie), 13 (1): 48.

Clastrier, J. & J.C. Delecolle. 1991. Diptera Ceratopogonidae de Nouvelle Caledonie. 8. Le genre Forcipomyia . Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Serie A Zoologie, 149: 177-232.

Clastrier, J. 1991. Description de cinq nouveaux Stilobezzia apparentes a S. insolita Das Gupta & Wirth, originaires des regions afrokopicale, palearctique et neotropicale. Bulletin de la Societe entomologique de France, 95 (9-10) (1990): 297-310.

Clastrier, J. l992. Description de Palpomyia guyana n.sp. de la Guyane Française (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae) Revue Française d'Entomologie (Nouvelle Serie), 14 (3): 117- 121.

Clastrier, J. l993. Description de cinq especes nouvelles de Stiloculicoides Wirth et Grogan originaires de l'Afrique tropicale et du departement français du Vaucluse (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae). Nouvelle Revue d'Entomologie, 10 (2): 133-143.

Clastrier, J. & J.C. Delecolle. 1993. Diptera Ceratopogonidae de Nouvelle Caledonie. 9. Genre Forcipomyia, Sous-genres Lasiohelea & Microhelea. Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Serie A Zoologie, 157: 131- 156.

Clastrier, J. l993. Diptera Ceratopogonidae de Nouvelle-Caledonie. 10; Genre Monohelea. Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Serie A Zoologie, 157: 157- 164.

Clastrier, J., D. Grand & J. Legrand. 1994. Observations exceptionnelles en France de Forcipomyia (Pterobosca ) paludis (Macfie), parasite des ailes de Libellules (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae et Odonata). Bulletin de la Societe entomologique de France; 99 (2): 127-130.

Clastrier, J. & J.C. Delecolle. 1994. Description de Forcipomyia (Phytohelea ) musae n. sp. de la Guyane Française (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae). Revue Française d'Entomologie (Nouvelle Serie), 16 (2): 51-56.

Clastrier, J. 1994. Stilobezzia sahariensis Kieffer, 1923 et St. aureola Clastrier, 1963 sont deux especes distinctes (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae). Bulletin de la Societe entomologique de France, 99 (1): 68.

Clastrier, J. & W.W. Wirth. 1995. Revision des Forcipomyia du sous-genre Microhelea de la region neotropicale, parasites de phasmes (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France (Nouvelle Serie), 31 (2): 97-150.

Clastrier, J. & J.C. Delecolle. 1996. Ceratopogonidae des iles Wallis et Futuna (Diptera). Bulletin de la Societe Entomologique de France, 101 (3): 289-318.

Clastrier, J. & J.C. Delecolle. 1997. Description de Forcipomyia (Trichohelea) roubaudi n.sp., ectoparasite de reduve, capture dans la canopee de la foret guyanaise (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae; Reduviidae). Bulletin de la Societe entomologique de France, (sous presse).

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Here's a ticket to the local minor league Baseball Team named THE SAND GNATS. I don't know of another team or mascot named such. Do you?

Do you know of other names for our beloved minuscule friends? Please send me any of your local "pet" names for Biting Midges for the next CIE.

As you note on the ticket, I think that the "GNATS" did win, since the BATS were probably not be able to see them (and certainly not be able to hit them).

The Sand Gnats are located in the coastal city of Savannah, Georgia and play all home games a distance of only 5 miles (8 km) from the Spartina alterniflora of the salt marshes of the Atlantic Seaboard.