Full redescription and first record of Dasyhelea bifida Zilahi-Sebess (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from Mexico

Dasyhelea bifida Zilahi-Sebess is fully redescribed, photographed and drawn from adults collected in Mexico City by Alfonso Dampf in 1944. This species is compared with the American congeners D. crassiseta Borkent and Forster, D. furva Remm and D. pollex Borkent and Forster. This is a new record of this species from Mexico.