Culicoides (Diphaomyia) blantoni Vargas and Wirth

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 : 8

Culicoides (Diphaomyia) blantoni Vargas and Wirth

Culicoides (Oecacta) blantoni Vargas and Wirth, 1955: 33 ( Mexico) .

Culicoides (Diphaomyia) blantoni: Vargas 1960: 39 (in list of New World species in the subgenus Diphaomyia ).

Discussion. The type locality of this species is in Tamaulipas, Mexico (holotype, allotype, paratypes), with additional paratypes from Guerrero, San Luis Potosí and Puebla. In his catalog of the New World south of the USA, Wirth (1974) also listed it from Texas. In their recent Nearctic catalog, Borkent and Grogan (2009) only listed it in Mexico from Sinaloa, Tamaulipas and Morelos, and, although the record from Sinaloa may be accurate, we are not certain of this. We provide the first records from Veracruz and additional records from Guerrero and San Luis Potosí.

New records. Guerrero, Iguala, Río Balsas, 26 March 1936, 15 females, 15 males. San Luis Potosi, El Salto Falls , April 1965, H. V. Weems, 4 females ; same data except 21 April 1965, 1 female ; same data except 9 May 1964, F. S. Blanton, 2 females ( FSCA). Veracruz, Juchique de Ferrer, Los Arroyos , 13 May 2008, CDC trap, 2 females, 9 females ; same data except 14 May 2008, Malaise trap, 1 female ; same data except 5 February 2009, Entomological brigade JS IV, CDC trap, 17 females ; same data except 21 May 2009, 1 female ; same data except 4 September 2008, 2 females ; Actopan, Soyacuautla , 15 May 2008, Entomological brigade JS IV, CDC UV trap, 4 females ; same data except 5 February 2009, 1 female, 2 males ; same data except 20 May 2009, 1 female ; same data except 4 September 2008, 2 females ; Actopan, Arroyo Agrío , 27 June 2006, Entomological brigade JS IV, CDC trap, 4 females ; Emiliano Zapata, Chavarrillo , 14 May 2008, Entomological brigade JS IV, CDC trap, 1 female, 1 male ; Vega de Alatorre, Emilio Carranza , 9 February 2009, Entomological brigade JS IV, CDC UV trap, 2 females, 1 male ; same data except 26 May 2009, 1 female ; Misantla, Paso Blanco , 4 February 2009, Entomological brigade JS IV, CDC trap, 1 female ; Alto Lucero, Arroyo Agrío , 2 September 2009, Entomological brigade JS IV, CDC trap, 1 female ; same data except 5 September 2008, 5 females, 1 male ; same data except 5 September 2009, Malaise trap, 1 male ; Atzalan, Plan de Arroyos , 1 September 2009, Entomological brigade JS IV, CDC trap, 1 female .