Culicoides stellifer (Coquillett), 1901

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 : 26

Culicoides stellifer (Coquillett), 1901

Note: Vargas (1954, 1958) and Vargas & Garza (1959) relate the record of this species for Mexico, nevertheless not include date of the locality, only mentions in list of species known for the country. Forattini (1957) show the distribution in Trinidad and cites to Vargas´ record in Mexico City (Distrito Federal). Wirth (1974) assinated the Trinidad record to C. guyanensis Floch & Abonnenc. In all subsequent catalogs of the Neotropical region and part of Mexico ( Wirth et al. 1988, Borkent & Spinelli, 2000, 2007, Mendez & Ibañez, 2023) no reference to this species. Phillips (2022) reassigned this species to the subgenus Haematomyidium , and indicated a broadly distribution in North America (Idaho, Montana to Nova Scotia, south to California, Utah, Florida), Mexico, Trinidad and Venezuela. We consider the record of this species in Mexico not confirmed. Acoording to Phillips (2022) this species is very similar to C. kettei Breidenbaugh & Mullens.

Specimens not available for study.