Culicoides rulfoi 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 : 18

Culicoides rulfoi Spinelli & Huerta, 2015

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Type series. HOLOTYPE. MEXICO, [Michoacan], Puerta Garnica , 20-aug- 1964, 9272 ft, male slide mounted; same date except , ALLOTYPE, female, #253; PARATYPES, between Morelia + Mexico City, female, 2 males slide mounted ( FSCA) .

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.