Culicoides fortinensis Spinelli & Huerta, 2015

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 : 17

Culicoides fortinensis Spinelli & Huerta, 2015

( Fig. 12 , 106–107 )

Type series. HOLOTYPE. MEXICO, Veracruz, Fortín de las Flores , jun-1964, light trap, Blanton F.S., #256, (near luteovenus ), female slide mounted.

Figures

FIGURE 7–15. Wings, dorsal view. Female. Subgenus Avaritia: 7. Culicoides boydi Wirth & Mullens, 8. Culicoides pusilloides Wirth &Blanton,9. Culicoidespusillus Lutz.SubgenusBeltranmyia: 10.Culicoides crepuscularis Malloch.SubgenusCulicoides: 11. Culicoides elutus Macfie, 12. Culicoides fortinensis Spinelli & Huerta, 13. Culicoides luteovenus Root & Hoffman, 14. Culicoides neopulicaris Wirth, 15. Culicoides rulfoi Spinelli & Huerta. Scale: 0.5 mm. Figs. 7 and 15, on a different scale.

FIGURE 106–108. Subgenus Culicoides. Female and male. 106–107. Culicoides fortinensis Spinelli & Huerta, 106. Head, frontal view; 107. Flagellomere, lateral view. 108. Culicoides elutus Macfie, male genitalia, ventral view. Scale: 0.1 mm. Abbreviations. Head: 2nd seg: second palpal segment; 3rd seg: third palpal segment; fla: flagellomere; sen coe: coeloconic sensillum; ver: verticile. Male genitalia: aed: aedeagus; apl pro: apicolateral process; bas arc: basal arch; goncx: gonocoxite; gonst: gonostyle; pm: paramere.