Culicoides willistoni Wirth & Blanton, 1953

Huerta, Herón, Spinelli, Gustavo R. & Grogan Jr, William L., 2025, An atlas of wing photographs and a key to species of the genus Culicoides Latreille from Mexico (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), including new records, new synonymy, two new species and new status of Culicoides neghmei Vargas and C. propinquus Macfie, Zootaxa 5566 (1), pp. 1-51 : 30

Culicoides willistoni Wirth & Blanton, 1953

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MEXICO, Sonora, Cholla Bay , 25-apr-1959, Adachi M.S., female slide mounted [ CAIM /Crt/lam-00585–005893] . PANAMA, Garachiné , Darien Province, feb-1953, light trap, Blanton F.S., male slide mounted [ CAIM /Crt/lam- 00594] .

Figures

FIGURE 56–61. Wings, dorsal view. Female. Subgenus Macfiella: 56. Culicoides phlebotomus (Williston), 57. Culicoides willistoni Wirth & Blanton. Subgenus Mataemyia: 58. Culicoides dicrourus Wirth & Blanton. Subgenus Monoculicoides: 59– 60. Culicoides occidentalis Wirth & Jones or Culicoides sonorensis Wirth & Jones, 61. Culicoides variipennis (Coquillett). Scale: 0.5 mm.