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 13075 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