Culicoides ( Oecacta ) sublettei Atchley, 1967: 997
Wirth et al. 1985: 34
Breidenbaugh and Mullens 1999b: 161
C . vetustus Breidenbaugh and Mullens
Culicoides ( Silvaticulicoides ) sublettei : Borkent and Grogan 2009: 15
Culicoides spinosus Root and Hoffman
Fox 1955: 255
Wirth and Bottimer 1956: 263
Khalaf 1957: 203
Jamnback 1965: 96
Culicoides Latreille and Leptoconops Skuse biting midges of the southwestern United States with emphasis on the Canyonlands of southeastern Utah (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)
Phillips, Robert A.
Insecta Mundi
2022
2022-01-28
2022
907
1
214
8BPGD
Atchley
Atchley
1967
[192,773,966,995]
Insecta
Ceratopogonidae
Culicoides
Animalia
Diptera
89
88
Arthropoda
species
sublettei
Silvaticulicoides
( Fig. 94, 148, 237)
Culicoides( Oecacta) sublettei Atchley, 1967: 997(key; numerical characters; female; male genitalia; fig. female wing, palpus, tibial comb, spermathecae, male genitalia, parameres; New Mexico). Wirth et al. 1985: 34(numerical characters; fig. female wing). Breidenbaugh and Mullens 1999b: 161(comparison to C. vetustusBreidenbaugh and Mullens). Culicoides( Silvaticulicoides) sublettei: Borkent and Grogan 2009: 15(in Nearctic catalog). Culicoides spinosusRoot and Hoffman, misidentified: Fox 1955: 255(in part; key and diagnoses of subgenera; species key; taxonomy). Wirth and Bottimer 1956: 263( Texasecology). Khalaf 1957: 203(may be misidentified; diagnosis; seasonal incidence; Oklahoma). Jones 1961b( Texasecology). Jamnback 1965: 96(in part; seasonal distribution; larval habitats).
Diagnosis.( Tables 14, 15) Wing pattern reduced and faint; r 2dark; pale spots at tip of costa, on r-m crossvein, distal in cua 1and anal cells, absent from r 3, m 1, indistinct in m 2; spermathecae with sclerotized necks about as long as wide; ventral apodeme of gonocoxite simple, about as long as dorsal apodeme; entire lateral contour of gonostylus convex; aedeagus V-shaped, median process tapered, blunt; parameres separate, mostly straight, apex with 3–4 divergent holly leaflike spines.
Distribution. California, Utah, Colorado(USNM), Arizona(Cochise County, new state record), New Mexico, Texas. Khalaf’s (1957) C. spinosus Oklahomarecord may be for C. sublettei. One female was collected with UVLT on 15 October 2019at 31.89365°N 109.21416°Wand 1708 melevation in Arizona. Larval ecology. Culicoides subletteihas been reared from mud at pond margins and light-trapped from 9 March to 9 October in south-central Texas( Wirth and Bottimer 1956, as C. spinosus). Jones (1961b, as C. spinosus) collected immatures from muddy freshwater spring-creek areas and boggy stream margins in Texas. Adult behavior. Jones et al. (1977)reported burros as hosts.
Remarks.The Arizonaspecimen I collected differs from Atchley’s (1967)description by having a sclerotized ring on the spermathecal duct. It also has the deeper palpal pit of C. vetustusand the shorter proboscis of C. usingeri. See subgenus Silvaticulicoidesdiscussion.