New records of biting midges from Argentina and Chile (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)

new records are provided for 22 species of biting midges (diptera: ceratopogonidae) from argentina and chile, 12 belonging to forcipomyia meigen, two to atrichopogon kieffer and culicoides latreille, and one to leptoconops skuse, dasyhelea kieffer, paradasyhelea macfie, alluaudomyia kieffer, macrurohelea ingram & macfie and palpomyia meigen. forcipomyia (f.) harpegonata wirth & soria, f. (f.) pictoni macfie, f. (f.) sexvittata wirth, f. (lepidohelea) annulatipes macfie, f. (l.) kuanoskeles macfie, f. (phytohelea) jocosa saunders and f. (thyridomyia) nana (macfie) are firstly recorded from argentina, and leptoconops ricardoi ronderos & spinelli, atrichopogon endemicus spinelli & marino, culicoides chacoensis spinelli & wirth, paradasyhelea brevipalpis (ingram & macfie) and alluaudomyia schnacki spinelli are firstly recorded from chile. forcipomyia calchaqui spinelli & marino is removed from the subgenus thyridomyia saunders and assigned to the subgenus synthyridomyia saunders.