Culicoides (Wirthomyia) bottimeri Wirth

Phillips, Robert A., 2022, Culicoides Latreille and Leptoconops Skuse biting midges of the southwestern United States with emphasis on the Canyonlands of southeastern Utah (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), Insecta Mundi 2022 (907), pp. 1-214 : 97-98

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.6391684

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scientific name

Culicoides (Wirthomyia) bottimeri Wirth
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Culicoides (Wirthomyia) bottimeri Wirth View in CoL

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Culicoides bottimeri Wirth, 1955: 356 View in CoL (female; male genitalia; female palpus, wing, male genitalia, parameres; Texas). Wirth and Bottimer 1956: 261 (seasonal distribution).

Culicoides (Wirthomyia) bottimeri: Vargas 1973: 112 View in CoL (assignment to subgenus Wirthomyia View in CoL ). Wirth et al. 1985: 34 (numerical characters; fig. female wing). Phillips et al. 2006: 48 (diagnosis, female, male; fig. female sternite 8, spermathecae, head, male tergite 9, genitalia; seasonal activity; Utah: Garfield, Grand counties; synonym: C. multidentatus View in CoL ).

Culicoides multidentatus Atchley and Wirth, 1975: 1421 View in CoL (female; fig. female eye separation, spermathecae, antenna, palpus; California). Wirth et al. 1985: 38 (numerical characters; fig. female wing).

Diagnosis. ( Tables 14, 15) Wing without pattern of pale spots ; two sclerotized ovoid unequal spermathecae, with vestigial third spherical or pyriform; posterior portion of female sternite 8 medially concave but not cleft, with pair of pointed submedian posterior projections; ventro-posterior membrane of male sternite 9 spiculate; gonocoxal ventral apodeme simple thin sinuous; aedeagus broadly U-shaped with median process only ~0.2 length of basal arms; parameres separate, apices are long curved heavily sclerotized serrated saberform blades. Distribution. California, Idaho (Bonneville County, new state record), Utah ( Garfield , Grand , Washington counties), Arizona, New Mexico, Texas. The Idaho collection of one female with UVLT on 14 July 2019 at 43.52974°N 111.18504°W and 2002 m elevation in the Snake River Range, is the northernmost record for this southwestern species GoogleMaps .

Adult behavior and vector potential. Atchley and Wirth (1975) collected female C. bottimeri (as C. multidentatus ) from California quail ( Callipepla californica ). In addition, Weinmann et al. (1979) observed C. bottimeri (as C. multidentatus ) feeding on California quail primarily from 1–2 h after sunset until ~2400–0100 hours and collected and found them naturally infected with fully developed and infective Splendidofilaria californiensis , implicating C. bottimeri as the primary vector of this quail heartworm. Furthermore, Mullens et al. (2006) reported bobwhite quail ( Colinus virginianus ) as a likely host and provided experimental evidence for C. bottimeri also being the primary vector for the California quail malarial parasite, Haemoproteus lophortyx O’Roke.

Symbionts. The larval habitat for C. bottimeri is unknown; however, a female specimen collected in Grand County, Utah, was parasitized by a larval mite ( Table 10), which species may indicate its pupal habitat or oviposition site.

Remarks. The simultaneous Grand County collections of males identified as C. bottimeri and females initially identified as C. multidentatus provided the initial evidence for demoting C. multidentatus to junior synonym of C. bottimeri ( Phillips et al. 2006) .

Subgenus unplaced, Daedalus group

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Ceratopogonidae

Genus

Culicoides

Loc

Culicoides (Wirthomyia) bottimeri Wirth

Phillips, Robert A. 2022
2022
Loc

Culicoides multidentatus

Wirth WW & Dyce AL & Peterson BV & Roper I. 1985: 38
Atchley WR & Wirth WW 1975: 1421
1975
Loc

Culicoides (Wirthomyia) bottimeri: Vargas 1973: 112

Phillips RA & Grogan WL & Mullens BA 2006: 48
Wirth WW & Dyce AL & Peterson BV & Roper I. 1985: 34
Vargas L. 1973: 112
1973
Loc

Culicoides bottimeri

Wirth WW & Bottimer LJ 1956: 261
Wirth WW 1955: 356
1955
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