Culicoides galindoi 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 galindoi Wirth & Blanton, 1953
status

 

Culicoides galindoi Wirth & Blanton, 1953

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: J.F. Medeiros; sex: 1 female, 1 male; lifeStage: adult; Location: country: Brazil; stateProvince: Rondônia; municipality: Cacoal; verbatimLocality: Chácara do Gerson and Rancho Cassiano; verbatimCoordinates: 11°25'53"S; 61°26'52"W; Event: samplingProtocol: HP light traps; eventDate: 2014-11-12 /21; habitat: forest fragment GoogleMaps

Diagnosis

Eyes contiguous, bare; third segment slightly swollen, with a small, shallow, sensory pit; pale distal spot in cell r3 rounded distally, leaving a small dark area in apex of cell; halter pale; spermathecae two, pyriform, subequal ( Wirth and Blanton 1959).

Distribution

Costa Rica, Panama, and Brazil (Acre, Amazonas, Maranhão, Roraima and now in 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