Culicoides (Culicoides) neopulicaris Wirth, 1955

Vigil, Wlodkowski, John C., Joshua, Vargas, Shaw, David, Christopher, William L. Grogan, Jr. & Corn, Joseph L., 2014, New records of biting midges of the genus Culicoides Latreille from the southeastern United States (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), Insecta Mundi 2014 (394), pp. 1-14 : 6

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5179761
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scientific name	Culicoides (Culicoides) neopulicaris Wirth
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Culicoides (Culicoides) neopulicaris Wirth View in CoL

Culicoides neopulicaris Wirth, 1955: 355 View in CoL (Texas; Mexico).

Culicoides (Culicoides) neopulicaris: Vargas 1960: 39 View in CoL (in review of New World subgenera of Culicoides View in CoL ); Wirth 1965: 128 (in Nearctic catalog; distribution); Wirth and Blanton 1969: 229 (in review of North American species in C. pulicaris View in CoL group; figs.; Costa Rica, El Salvador); Wirth et al. 1985: 12 (in Nearctic Wing Atlas; Louisiana); Borkent and Grogan 2009: 13 (in Nearctic catalog; distribution).

Discussion. Culicoides neopulicaris is a moderately sized species, and like other North American species in the subgenus Culicoides , it has a very distinctive, contrasting wing pattern ( Wirth et al. 1985). The feeding habits of C. neopulicaris are unknown, however, several other species in the subgenus Culicoides are primarily mammalophilic. These species include C. freeborni Wirth and Blanton , reported to feed on deer and jackrabbits; C. neofagineus Wirth and Blanton , known to feed on deer and quail; C. cockerellii (Coquillett) , C. frohnei Wirth and Blanton , C. tristriatulus Hoffman , and C. yukonensis Hoffman , reported to feed on humans ( Wirth and Blanton 1969). Wirth (1955) described C. neopulicaris from Texas and Mexico, Wirth and Blanton (1969) recorded it from Costa Rica and El Salvador, and Wirth et al. (1985) recorded it from Louisiana. We provide the first records from Alabama in the southwestern portion of that state.

New State Records. ALABAMA, Clarke Co., Fred T. Stimpson Wildlife Management Area, 21 September 2011, 1 female. Marengo Co., Demopolis, David K. Nelson Wildlife Management Area, 19 September 2011, 1 female.