Culicoides (Culicoides) neopulicaris Wirth, 1955

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 : 7

Culicoides (Culicoides) neopulicaris Wirth

Culicoides neopulicaris Wirth, 1955a: 355 (Texas, USA).

Culicoides (Culicoides) neopulicaris: Vargas 1960: 39 (in list of New World species in subgenus Culicoides ).

Discussion. The type locality of this species is Kerrville, Kerr County, Texas, but in his original description, Wirth (1955a) also identified four females from San Luis Potosí, Mexico that he did not designate as paratypes. Subsequently, Wirth and Blanton (1969) revised the pulicaris group in North America and identified additional specimens of C. neopulicaris from Chiapas, Morelos and Veracruz, Mexico and other material from Costa Rica and El Salvador. In their Nearctic wing atlas, Wirth et al. (1985) also listed this species from Louisiana, USA. We provide the first records from the states of Hidalgo, México and Yucatán, and additional records from Chiapas, Morelos and Veracruz.

New records. Chiapas, Punta Macuilapa, 22 May 1964, 1 female ( FSCA). Hidalgo, Tlanchinol, Carretera Tlanchinol-Apantlazol, 4 km, 11 March 1997, S. B. Salceda, J. Blackaller and G. A. Pérez, Malaise trap, 1 male ( FSCA). México, Otumba, Coyotepec, 24 August-14 September 2007, Z. D. Hdez., Malaise trap, 1 female. Morelos, El Salto Falls, 17 June 1969, W. & D. Hasse, light trap, 44 females ( FSCA). San Luis Potosí, El Salto Falls , 9 May 1964, 2 females ; same data except April 1965, H. V. Weems, 1 female ; same data except 21 April 1965, 1 female ( FSCA). Veracruz, Actopan, Soyacuautla , 15 May 2008, Entomological brigade JS IV, CDC UV trap, 2 females ; Emiliano Zapata, Chavarrillo , 14 May 2008, CDC UV trap, 3 females ; same data except 3 September 2008, Entomological brigade JS IV, 2 females ; Juchique de Ferrer, Los Arroyos , 5 February 2009, CDC trap, 1 female ; same data except 18 February 2010, Entomological brigade JS IV, Malaise trap, 1 female ; Atzalan, Plan de Arroyos , 19 May 2009, Entomological brigade JS IV, CDC trap, 2 females ; Vega de Alatorre, Emilio Carranza , 8 September 2009, Entomological brigade JS IV, CDC trap, 1 female ; Misantla, Paso Blanco, 23 February 2010, Entomological brigade JS IV, Malaise trap, 1 female. Yucatán, Celestun, near Ecoparaíso, 22-25 Jul 1998, H. Huerta & R. C. Pérez, Malaise trap, 1 male ; Reserva Ría Lagartos , 8 July 1997, H. Huerta, S. P. Manrique & R. R. Paz, Malaise trap, 1 male .