Culicoides (Hoffmania) heliconiae
C. rozeboomi
New species records of Culicoides biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) for the state of Rondonia in Brazilian Amazon
Carvalho, Luis Paulo Costa
Farias, Emanuelle de Sousa
Gil, Luiz Herman Soares
Pessoa, Felipe Arley Costa
Medeiros, Jansen Fernandes
Biodiversity Data Journal
2017
5
13075
13075
Fox & Hoffman, 1944
Fox & Hoffman
1944
Insecta
Ceratopogonidae
Culicoides
CoL
Animalia
Culicoides (Hoffmania) heliconiae
Diptera
0
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Arthropoda
species
heliconiae
Hoffmania
Culicoides (Hoffmania) heliconiaeSynonyms: C. rozeboomiBarbosa, 1947
Materials Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: J.F. Medeiros; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Location: country: Brazil; stateProvince: Rondonia; municipality: Cacoal; verbatimCoordinates: 11°25'53"S; 61°26'52"W; Event: samplingProtocol: HP light traps; eventDate: 2014-11-12/21; habitat: fragmented forest Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: L.P.C. Carvalho; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; Location: country: Brazil; stateProvince: Rondonia; municipality: Buritis; verbatimCoordinates: 10°12'47"S; 63°53'46"W; Event: samplingProtocol: HP light traps; eventDate: 2015-05-26; habitat: forest
Diagnosis Third palpal segment with scattered sensilla; apical pale band on mid femur, hind femur dark to tip; wing with distal pale spot in r3 which is narrow and transverse, r3 with pale spot present anterior to base of M1, a single pale spot crosses the second radial cell, apices of CuA1 and CuA2 pale; spermathecae with short, slender necks ( Felippe-Bauer et al. 2009).
Distribution Belize to Venezuela, Ecuador, Brazil (Acre, Amazonas, Paraand now in Rondonia), Grenada and Trinidad and Tobago ( Borkent and Spinelli 2007, Farias et al. 2016a, Fox and Hoffman 1944and Santaremand Felippe-Bauer 2017).
Notes This species was here recorded for the first time in RondoniaState.
2014-12-11
HP light traps
J. F. Medeiros
Brazil
-11.431389
Brazil
21
-61.44778
0
13075
1
1
Other material
2015-05-26
HP light traps
L. P. C. Carvalho
Brazil
-10.213056
Brazil
21
-63.896114
0
13075
1
1
Other material