Culicoides clastrieri Callot

Sarvašová, Adela, Kočišová, Alica, Halán, Miloš, Delécolle, Jean-Claude & Mathieu, Bruno, 2014, Morphological and molecular analysis of the genus Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in Slovakia with five new records, Zootaxa 3872 (5), pp. 541-560 : 545-546

Culicoides clastrieri Callot et al

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Culicoides clastrieri Callot et al. 1962: 156 Kremer 1965: 149 (description of male and female, key) Callot et al. 1972: 761 (pharangeal armature of female illustrated) Kremer et al. 1973: 61 (notes, female wing illustrated, key) Gutsevich 1973: 138 (notes)

Glukhova 1989: 249 (notes)

Mathieu et al. 2012 (included in key).

Type material examined. France, Krautergersheim, 24.Jun.1961 (Holotype label 2009-B-351, female); route de Sélestat, 31.May.1961 (Paratype label 1917-B-223, male).

Non type material examined. Slovakia, Rozhanovce, 48°45′N, 21°21′E, 13.May.2011 (1 male), 6.Jul.2011 (1 female), 12.Jul.2012 (1 female), 4.Jul.2012 (2 females), 23.May.2012 (1 male), 11.Jul.2013 (1 male), 17.Jul.2013 (1 female); Velaty, 48°31′N, 21°39′E, 25.Aug.2012 (1 male). France, Haslach, 22.Jul.1967 (1 female), 29.Jun.1971 (1 female); Corsica, Aléria, 42°06’N, 9°29’E, 18.Jun.2002 (1 female).

Diagnosis. Female: The only species of Palearctic Culicoides with the combination of an elongated pale spot in m cell reaching the mediocubital fork, a yellowish thorax ( Fig. 3 ) and SCo present on 1, 9-13. Male: the only species of Palearctic Culicoides with the combination of an elongated pale spot in m cell reaching the mediocubital fork and a yellowish thorax.

Distribution. Bosnia and Herzegovina, United Kingdom, France (including Corsica), Germany, Italia, Poland, Ukraine, Slovenia and Slovakia.

Remarks. C. clastrieri is most similar to C. festivipennis but females of the latter species have a SCo distribution of 1–13 and both sexes have a brownish thorax with paler areas surrounded by darker ones ( Fig. 4 ).

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 8. 1. Culicoides picturatus Kremer & Deduit, female wing. 2, 3. C. clastrieri Callot, Kremer & Deduit: 2. Female wing. 3. Thorax. 4. C. festivipennis Kieffer, thorax. 5, 6 a. C. gejgelensis Dzhafarov: 5. Female wing. 6 a. Spermathecae. 6 b. Culicoides cataneii Clastrier, spermathecae. 7. C. griseidorsum Kieffer, female wing. 8. C. odiatus Austen, female wing.