Culicoides arubae Fox and Hoffman

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 : 16

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5174160
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5187018
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scientific name	Culicoides arubae Fox and Hoffman
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Culicoides arubae Fox and Hoffman View in CoL

Culicoides arubae Fox and Hoffman, 1944: 109 ( Aruba) View in CoL ; Borkent and Spinelli 2007: 75 (in Neotropical catalog; distribution).

Discussion. This primarily Neotropical species occurs in the USA in Texas, and Mexico south to Colombia and Venezuela, and, in the Caribbean on Aruba and Grenada ( Borkent and Spinelli 2007). It was previously known in Mexico from Campeche, Guerrero and Tamaulipas ( Wirth et al. 1988); we provide the first records from Veracruz and Yucatán, and additional records from Tamaulipas.

New records. Tamaulipas, Tampico, Laguna del Carpintero, November 1945, M. Macías, 17 females, 2 males. Veracruz, Alto Lucero , Arroyo Agrío , 5 September 2008, Entomological brigade JS IV, Malaise trap, 1 male. Yucatán, Reserva Ría Lagartos, Malaise trap, 30 August 1995, Malaise trap, 1 female ; same data except 8 July 1997, H. Huerta, S. P. Manrique & R. R Paz, light trap, 1 male ; Tizimin , 31 August 1995, H. Huerta, S. P. Manrique & R. R Paz, Malaise trap, 15 females, 15 males ; same data except near Zac Bo , 2 April 1997, S. Ibáñez-Bernal, M. C. L. Miranda, H. Huerta & S. P. Manrique, Malaise trap, 1 male .