Culicoides (Diphaomyia) baueri Hoffman, 1925

Huerta, Rodríguez, Ana M., William L. Grogan, Jr. & Ibáñez-Bernal, Sergio, 2012, New records of biting midges of the genus Culicoides Latreille from Mexico (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), Insecta Mundi 2012 (211), pp. 1-20 : 2-3

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5174160

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scientific name

Culicoides (Diphaomyia) baueri Hoffman
status

 

Culicoides (Diphaomyia) baueri Hoffman View in CoL

Culicoides baueri Hoffman, 1925: 297 View in CoL (Maryland, USA).

Culicoides (Diphaomyia) baueri: Vargas 1960: 40 View in CoL (as type species of subgenus Diphaomyia View in CoL ).

Culicoides (Diphaeomyia) haematopotus: Blanton and Wirth 1979: 61 View in CoL (subgenus sic; Florida records; distribution).

Discussion. This species was previously known only from the USA in Colorado, Maryland and Tennessee south to Louisiana and Florida ( Borkent and Grogan 2009). Only two species in the subgenus Diphaomyia Vargas were previously known from Mexico, C. blantoni Vargas and Wirth and C. haematopotus Malloch. However, Root and Hoffman (1937) mentioned specimens of C. baueri from Distrito Federal, Mexico in the collection of Alfonso Dampf. Vargas (1945) also included Mexican records of C. baueri from Guerrero and Tamaulipas. In his Neotropical catalog, Wirth (1974) refers to erroneous identifications of C. baueri by Ortiz and Mirsa (1951) and Forattini (1957), and indicated that these were probably specimens of C. iriartei Fox.

During our examination of material in CAIM, we compared specimens of C. baueri with specimens of C. blantoni , C. haematopotus , C. iriartei and other species in the subgenus Diphaomyia . Culicoides baueri differs from C. blantoni and C. haematopotus by its wing pattern that features a pale line bordering the anterior side of M 1 just below the poststigmatic pale spot in cell r 3. We identified males of C. baueri collected in Puebla, Mexico based on the descriptions and illustrations in Blanton and Wirth (1979) and by comparing them with other specimens of this species from the USA. However, we were unable to confirm earlier records of C. baueri from Mexico by Vargas (1945), because his material was not found in the CAIM collection.

New records. Puebla, Atlixco, Metepec, Cañada, 29 November 1993, F. Castro, colecta directa, en madriguera cerca de un río, en reposo, 4 males. New country record.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Ceratopogonidae

Genus

Culicoides

Loc

Culicoides (Diphaomyia) baueri Hoffman

Huerta, Rodríguez, Ana M., William L. Grogan, Jr. & Ibáñez-Bernal, Sergio 2012
2012
Loc

Culicoides (Diphaeomyia) haematopotus: Blanton and Wirth 1979: 61

Blanton, F. S. & W. W. Wirth 1979: 61
1979
Loc

Culicoides (Diphaomyia) baueri: Vargas 1960: 40

Vargas, L. 1960: 40
1960
Loc

Culicoides baueri

Hoffman, W. A. 1925: 297
1925
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