Culicoides (Haematomyidium) darlingtonae Wirth & Blanton, 1971

Carvalho, Luis Paulo Costa, Farias, Emanuelle de Sousa, Gil, Luiz Herman Soares, Pessoa, Felipe Arley Costa & Medeiros, Jansen Fernandes, 2017, New species records of Culicoides biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) for the state of Rondonia in Brazilian Amazon, Biodiversity Data Journal 5, pp. 13075-13075 : 13075

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.5.e13075

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scientific name

Culicoides (Haematomyidium) darlingtonae Wirth & Blanton, 1971
status

 

Culicoides (Haematomyidium) darlingtonae Wirth & Blanton, 1971

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: J.F. Medeiros; sex: 2 females, 3 males; lifeStage: adult; Location: country: Brazil; stateProvince: Rondônia; municipality: Espigão do Oeste; verbatimCoordinates: 11°67'63"S; 60°69'90"W; Event: samplingProtocol: HP light traps; eventDate: 2014-04; habitat: forest GoogleMaps Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: J.F. Medeiros; sex: 3 females, 5 males; lifeStage: adult; Location: country: Brazil; stateProvince: Rondônia; municipality: Pimenta Bueno; verbatimLocality: Usina Hidrelétrica Rondon II; verbatimCoordinates: 11°96'48"S; 60°69'90"W; Event: samplingProtocol: HP light traps; eventDate: 2014-10-10 /11; habitat: fragment forest GoogleMaps Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: J.F. Medeiros; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; Location: country: Brazil; stateProvince: Rondônia; municipality: Cacoal; verbatimLocality: Rancho Cassiano; verbatimCoordinates: 11°25'53"S; 61°26'52"W; Event: samplingProtocol: HP light traps; eventDate: 2014-11-12 /21; habitat: fragment forest GoogleMaps

Diagnosis

Eyes narrowly separated, with short interfacetal hairs; third palpal segment considerably swollen its full length, with shallow and round sensory pit; proboscis short; thorax dark brown; legs brown, knee spots blackish; second radial cell included in a dark spot to its apex, cell r3 with contiguous poststigmatic pale spots, cell m1 with two pale spots, cell m2 with small pale spot; two spermathecae and rudimentary third, with sclerotized ring ( Wirth and Blanton 1971).

Distribution

Costa Rica, Trinidad and Brazil ( Rondônia) ( Borkent and Spinelli 2007, Farias et al. 2016a, Santarém and Felippe-Bauer 2017 and Wirth and Blanton 1971).

Notes

This species was here recorded for the first time in Brazil.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Ceratopogonidae

Genus

Culicoides