Culicoides (Drymodesmyia) pilosus Wirth & Blanton, 1960

Huerta, Herón, Spinelli, Gustavo R. & Grogan Jr, William L., 2025, An atlas of wing photographs and a key to species of the genus Culicoides Latreille from Mexico (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), including new records, new synonymy, two new species and new status of Culicoides neghmei Vargas and C. propinquus Macfie, Zootaxa 5566 (1), pp. 1-51 : 10

Culicoides (Drymodesmyia) pilosus Wirth & Blanton

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Culicoides pilosus Wirth & Blanton, 1959: 332 (female, male; copiosus group; Panama; figures).

Culicoides (Drydomesmyia) pilosus Wirth & Blanton. Wirth & Hubert 1960: 648 (review of the copiosus group; key; figures); Wirth 1974: 14.23 (in catalogue of Diptera of the Americas south of United States; distribution); Wirth et al. 1988: 26 (atlas of wing photographs of the Neotropical species; distribution); Borkent & Wirth 1997: 79 (in world species of biting midges); Borkent & Spinelli 2000: 31 (in catalog of new world south of the United States; distribution); Spinelli & Borkent 2004: 390 (in species list of Costa Rica); Borkent & Spinelli 2007: 65 (in catalog of the Ceratopogonidae of the Neotropical region; distribution); Spinelli et al. 2009: 88 (in species list Colombia); Spinelli & Wolff, 2016: 109 (record Colombia); Borkent & Dominiak 2020: 111 (in catalogue of biting midges of the world); Santarém & Felippe-Bauer, 2023: 21 (in species list of Brazil).

Remarks. This species was included in the copiosus group by Wirth & Blanton (1959). In their key to species, Wirth & Hubert (1960) mainly recognized this species by the anterior portion of its darkly pigmented wing. Wirth (1974) in the Neotropical catalogue assigns it to the subgenus Drymodesmyia Vargas. This group includes 15 species in Mexico. In their review of the copiosus group, Wirth & Hubert (1960) included all the species in the key were illustrated except for Culicoides wirthomyia Vargas and C. propinquus Macfie.

Material examined. Mexico, Hidalgo, Tlanchinol, 3.5 Km carretera Tlanchinol-Apantlazol, cloud forest, GPS: 20’59’16” N, 98’39’36” W, 2–6-aug-1997, Malaise trap, Blackaller J., Salceda-Sánchez B. & Pérez-Garcia A., female (slide mounted) ( CAIM) .

Distribution. México (Morelos), Costa Rica, Colombia, Panama, Brazil (Para ́).

Figures

FIGURE 30–37. Wings, dorsal view. Female and male. Subgenus Drymodesmyia: 30. Culicoides panamensis Barbosa, 31. Culicoides pilosus Wirth & Blanton, 32. Culicoides poikilonotus Macfie, 33. Culicoides propinquus Macfie (male), 34. Culicoides ryckmani Wirth & Hubert, 35. Culicoides sitiens Wirth & Hubert, 36. Culicoides torridus Wirth & Hubert, 37. Culicoides wirthomyia Vargas (male). Scale: 0.5 mm; Fig. 33 (0.05 mm).