Culicoides carpenteri Wirth & Blanton, 1953

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 carpenteri Wirth & Blanton, 1953
status

 

Culicoides carpenteri Wirth & Blanton, 1953

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: J.F. Medeiros; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; Location: country: Brazil; stateProvince: Rondônia; municipality: Costa Marques; verbatimCoordinates: 12°24'25"S; 64°14'26"W; Event: samplingProtocol: HP light traps; eventDate: 2015-05-22; habitat: forest GoogleMaps

Diagnosis

Third palpal segment scarcely swollen, with a broad, shallow sensory pit; second radial cell very dark, large pale area over r-m crossvein, extensive distal pale spot in cell r3 broadly extending across cell near apex from anterior wing margin to vein M1; apices of veins M1, M2 and CuA1 dark; subapical pale spot in cell m2, distal pale spot in cell m1 broadly meeting wing margin; two pale spots in distal part of cell m2, the distal one broadly meeting wing margin; the proximal one connected by a pale area extending to base of cell and including the pale spots lying in front of mediocubital fork and behind medial fork; pale area in cell CuA1 nearly filling entire cell; anal cell pale except for a large dark area centering on middle of stem of mediocubital vein; halter pale ( Wirth and Blanton 1959).

Distribution

Costa Rica, Panama, Ecuador, Bolivia and Brazil (Amazonas and Rondônia) ( Borkent and Spinelli 2007, Farias et al. 2016a, Santarém and Felippe-Bauer 2017 and Wirth and Blanton 1953).

Notes

This species was here recorded for the first time in Rondônia State.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Ceratopogonidae

Genus

Culicoides