New species records of Culicoides biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) for the state of Rondonia in Brazilian Amazon Author Carvalho, Luis Paulo Costa Author Farias, Emanuelle de Sousa Author Gil, Luiz Herman Soares Author Pessoa, Felipe Arley Costa Author Medeiros, Jansen Fernandes text Biodiversity Data Journal 2017 5 13075 13075 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.5.e13075 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.5.e13075 1314-2828-5-13075 Culicoides galindoi Wirth & Blanton, 1953 Materials Type status: Other material . Occurrence: recordedBy: J.F. Medeiros ; sex: 1 female , 1 male ; lifeStage: adult ; Location: country: Brazil ; stateProvince: Rondonia ; municipality: Cacoal; verbatimLocality: Chacara do Gerson and Rancho Cassiano; verbatimCoordinates: 11°25'53"S ; 61°26'52"W ; Event: samplingProtocol: HP light traps ; eventDate: 2014-11-12 /21; habitat: forest fragment Diagnosis Eyes contiguous, bare; third segment slightly swollen, with a small, shallow, sensory pit; pale distal spot in cell r3 rounded distally, leaving a small dark area in apex of cell; halter pale; spermathecae two, pyriform, subequal ( Wirth and Blanton 1959 ). Distribution Costa Rica, Panama, and Brazil (Acre, Amazonas, Maranhao , Roraima and now in Rondonia ) ( Borkent and Spinelli 2007 , Farias et al. 2016a , Santarem and Felippe-Bauer 2017 and Wirth and Blanton 1953 ). Notes This species was here recorded for the first time in Rondonia State.