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.