Culicoides circumscriptus Kieffer, 1918

El-Hawagry, Magdi S., El-Azab, Salah El-Din A., Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S. & Al Dhafer, Hathal M., 2020, Biting midges of Egypt (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), Biodiversity Data Journal 8, pp. 52357-52357 : 52357

Culicoides circumscriptus Kieffer, 1918

Culicoides circumscriptus Kieffer, 1918 [ Kieffer 1918a: 49]. Type locality: Tunisia.

Culicoides nadayanus Kieffer, 1918 [ Kieffer 1918a: 95]. Type locality: Turkey.

Culicoides edwardsi Goetghebuer, 1921 [ Goetghebuer 1921: 177]. Type locality: Belgium.

Culicoides algarum Kieffer, 1924 [ Kieffer 1924a: 18]. Type locality: Germany.

Culicoides salicola Kieffer, 1924 [ Kieffer 1924b: 405]. Type locality: Norway.

Culicoides salicola var. pictidorsum Kieffer, 1924 [ Kieffer 1924b: 406]. Type locality: Norway.

Culicoides albonotatus Vimmer, 1932 [ Vimmer 1932: 133], preoccupied by Culicoides albonotatus Kieffer 1918. Type locality: Israel.

Culicoides albosignatus Vimmer, 1932 [ Vimmer 1932: 135]. Type locality: Israel.

Culicoides polymaculatus Vimmer, 1932 [ Vimmer 1932: 135]. Type locality: Israel.

Culicoides pulcher Zilahi-Sebess, 1934 [ Zilahi-Sebess 1934: 155], misspelled as pulscher. Type locality: Bulgaria.

Culicoides kirovabadicus Dzhafarov, 1964 [ Dzhafarov 1964: 228]. Type locality: Azerbaijan.

Culicoides circumscriptus matsuensis Lien, Weng and Lin, 1996 [ Lien et al. 1996: 20]. Type locality: Taiwan.

Culicoides circumscriptus meridionalis Xue, Liu and Yu, 2003 [ Xue et al. 2003: 112]. Type locality: China.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; disposition: personal collection of El-Hawagry; Taxon: scientificName: Culicoidescircumscriptus Kieffer, 1918; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Ceratopogonida; Location: continent: Africa; country: Egypt; stateProvince: Giza; locality: El-Hager ; Event: samplingProtocol: light trap; eventDate: 15 Aug 1996

Distribution

OR & PA: Widespread in Asia and Europe, Egypt, Tunisia.

Local distribution in Egypt: Coastal Strip: Abis. Eastern Desert: Ismailia (Moascar). Fayoum: EI-Siliyin, Lower Nile Valley & Delta: Abbassiya (Cairo), Abu-Rawash, Aga, El-Hager (Mansheyet El-Qanater), EI-Qanatir, Mit Yaish (Mit Ghamr), Nawasa El-Gheit. Upper Nile Valley: Assiout (Biblaw), Minya. Western Desert: Abis, El-Bustan.

Dates of collection in Egypt: March to November.