Culicoides (Monoculicoides) variipennis (Coquillett)

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), Insecta Mundi 2010 (147), pp. 1-59 : 28

Culicoides (Monoculicoides) variipennis (Coquillett)

Ceratopogon variipennis Coquillett, 1901: 602 (Virginia, New Jersey, Mexico).

Culicoides variipennis: Kieffer 1906: 55 (combination); Holbrook et al. 2000: 68 (genetic analysis and revision of complex).

Culicoides variipennis variipennis: Wirth and Jones 1957: 12 (Virginia syntype designated lectotype).

Culicoides (Monoculicoides) variipennis: Khalaf 1954: 40 ; Blanton and Wirth 1979: 161 (Florida records, in part); Wilkening et al. 1985: 521 (Florida records, in part); Borkent and Grogan 2009: 15 (in Nearctic catalog; distribution).

Discussion. Because Blanton and Wirth (1979) and Wilkening et al. (1985) did not distinguish specimens of C. variipennis and C. sonorensis , we list below Florida records of C. variipennis identified and labeled by WLG in the FSCA and USNM. We also provide the first records from Walton Co.

New records. Alachua Co., Gainesville , Chantilly Acres, March 1968, F. S. Blanton, light trap, 1 female ( FSCA) ; Hawthorne , 27-IV-1968, F. S. Blanton, 15 females ( FSCA) ; same data, 1 male, 2 females ( USNM). Calhoun Co., Blountstown , 28-II-6-IV-1961, S. B. H., 22 females, 6 males ( FSCA) ; same data, 1 male, 5 females ( USNM). Escambia Co., Bratt , VI-IX-1968, FS & AJ Blanton, light trap, 20 males, 24 females ; same data, 16 males, 22 females ( USNM) ; Cantonment , VII-1961, Tidwell, 1 male ( USNM) ; Innerarity Pt., VIII-1965, Tidwell, 1 female ( USNM). Jefferson Co., Monticello, V-VII-1969, W. H. Whitcomb, B. L. Trap, 1 male, 3 females ( USNM). Walton Co., Grayton Beach , 26 October 2001, C. F. Hallmon, CO 2 baited CDC light trap, 2 females ( FAMC) .