Culicoides (Drymodesmyia) arizonensis Wirth and Hubert

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 : 59-60

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

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scientific name

Culicoides (Drymodesmyia) arizonensis Wirth and Hubert
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Culicoides (Drymodesmyia) arizonensis Wirth and Hubert View in CoL

(Fig. 111, 164, 215)

Culicoides (Oecacta) arizonensis Wirth and Hubert, 1960: 655 View in CoL (key; numerical characters; female; male genitalia; fig. female wing, palpus, spermathecae, male genitalia, parameres; Arizona).

Culicoides (Drymodesmyia) arizonensis: Wirth 1965: 130 View in CoL (placement in subgenus Drymodesmyia View in CoL ). Wirth et al. 1985: 14 (numerical characters; fig. female wing). Wirth et al. 1988: 24 (numerical characters; fig. female wing). Borkent and Spinelli 2000: 30 (in Neotropical catalog).

Diagnosis. ( Tables 14, 15) Dark brown; wing pattern distinct; r 2 dark; distal pale spot in r 3 nearly filling distal 0.3–0.4 of cell, cut into on proximal side by dark spot; pale spots at ~0.3 on M 1 and ~0.5 on M 2; one pale spot in distal half of anal cell; tips of M 1, M 2 dark; CuA 1 and CuA 2 within dark areas; pore of sensory pit on palpal segment 3 ~0.3 the diameter of segment, widening internally (as in Fig. 248 C. sitiens ); femora and tibiae without subapical pale band; spermathecae unequal by ~1.5×, pyriform; ventro-posterior membrane of male sternite 9 densely spiculate; ventral apodeme of gonocoxite simple, ~0.5 as long as dorsal apodeme; aedeagus V-shaped, truncate tip ~0.25 width of arm spread, aedeagal ratio ~0.6; parameres separate, apices simple pointed bent.

Distribution. California, Arizona, Baja California.

Larval ecology and adult behavior. Culicoides arizonensis has been reared from rot holes in Carnegiea gigantea ( Ryckman 1960) and in Pachycereus schottii (Engelmann) D. R. Hunt (Cactaceae) ( Wirth and Hubert 1960). However, its adult hosts are unknown, though the mandibular and lacinial teeth on the female indicate it feeds on vertebrate blood.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Ceratopogonidae

Genus

Culicoides

Loc

Culicoides (Drymodesmyia) arizonensis Wirth and Hubert

Phillips, Robert A. 2022
2022
Loc

Culicoides (Drymodesmyia) arizonensis: Wirth 1965: 130

Borkent A & Spinelli GR 2000: 30
Wirth WW & Dyce AL & Spinelli GR 1988: 24
Wirth WW & Dyce AL & Peterson BV & Roper I. 1985: 14
Wirth WW 1965: 130
1965
Loc

Culicoides (Oecacta) arizonensis

Wirth WW & Hubert AA 1960: 655
1960
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