Culicoides (Drymodesmyia) jamaicensis Edwards, 1922

Huerta, Rodríguez, Ana M., William L. Grogan, Jr. & Ibáñez-Bernal, Sergio, 2012, New records of biting midges of the genus Culicoides Latreille from Mexico (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), Insecta Mundi 2012 (211), pp. 1-20 : 9

Culicoides (Drymodesmyia) jamaicensis Edwards

Culicoides loughnani var. jamaicensis Edwards, 1922: 165 (as variety of C. loughnani ; Jamaica); Macfie

1948: 80 (Chiapas, Mexico). Culicoides jamaicensis: Wirth 1955b: 112 ( Guatemala record). Culicoides (Drymodesmyia) jamaicensis: Vargas 1960: 40 (in list of New World Culicoides in new subgenus Drymodesmyia ).

Discussion. This wide ranging primarily Neotropical species occurs in the extreme southern portion of the USA in Texas and Florida, south to Colombia and Venezuela and the Caribbean ( Borkent and Spinelli 2000, 2007). Macfie (1948) first recorded C. jamaicensis in Mexico from Chiapas; we provide the first records from the states of Guerrero, Jalisco, México, Oaxaca, Veracruz and Yucatán.

New records. Guerrero, Coyuca de Catalán, Río Balsas, 1 September 1984, S. Ibáñez-Bernal, manbiting, 1 male. Jalisco, Estación Biológica de Chamela , 24 February 1994, A. Pescador, J. Palacios & A. Cadena, Malaise trap, 1 female, 2 females. México, Otumba, 12 April 2007 - 4 May 2007, Z. D. Hdez., Malaise trap, 1 female ; same data except 24 May-4 June 2007, 1 male ; same data except 5-26 June 2007, 1 female ; same data except 23 January-13 February 2008, 3 females. Oaxaca, San Juan Guichicovi, El Zarzal , 25-26 July 2009, A. Salceda, A. Rodríguez & A. J. Ordóñez, Malaise trap, 1 female. Veracruz, Emiliano Zapata , Chavarrillo , 14 May 2008, Entomological brigade JS IV, CDC trap, 1 female ; same data except 3 September 2008, 1 female ; Actopan, Soyacuautla , 15 May 2008, Entomological brigade JS IV, CDC trap, 5 females ; same data except 20 May 2009, 2 females ; Actopan, Arroyo Agrío , 27 June 2006, Entomological brigade JS IV, CDC trap, 1 female ; Actopan , La Mancha, 16 April 2010, Entomological brigade JS IV, Malaise trap, 1 female ; Misantla, Paso Blanco , 14 May 2008, Entomological brigade JS IV, CDC trap, 2 females ; same data except 3 September 2008, Malaise trap, 1 female ; same data except CDC trap, 1 female ; same data except 3 September 2009, 1 female ; Juchique de Ferrer, Los Arroyos , 21 May 2009, Entomological brigade JS IV, Malaise trap, 1 female ; Vega de Alatorre, Emilio Carranza , 9 September 2008, Entomological brigade JS IV, Malaise trap, 1 female ; same data except 26 May 2009, CDC trap, 2 females. Yucatán, Celestún, Reserva de Celestún , 21 January 1997, H. Huerta, S. P. Manrique & A. A. Godínez, Malaise trap, 1 male .