Culicoides (Haematomyidium) hoffmani Fox, 1946

William L. Grogan, Jr., Spinelli, Ronderos, María M. & Carla, 2013, The biting and predaceous midges of Guadeloupe Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). I. Species of the subfamily Ceratopogoninae, Insecta Mundi 2013 (324), pp. 1-21 : 4

Culicoides (Haematomyidium) hoffmani Fox

Culicoides hoffmani Fox, 1946: 251 ( Trinidad) ; Fox 1949: 29 ( Puerto Rico);

Culicoides (Oecacta) hoffmani: Wirth and Blanton 1959: 436 (review of Culicoides of Panama; distribution); Wirth 1974: 32 (in New World catalog south of the USA; distribution); Wirth and Blanton 1974: 54 (in West Indian Culicoides ; distribution).

Culicoides (Haematomyidium) hoffmani: Wirth et al. 1988: 48 (in Neotropical Wing Atlas); Borkent and Spinelli 2000: 32 (in New World catalog south of the USA; distribution); Borkent and Spinelli 2007: 67 (in Neotropical catalog; distribution).

Discussion. This Neotropical species was originally described from Trinidad, and then subsequently recorded from Puerto Rico ( Fox 1949), Virgin Islands ( Wirth and Blanton 1956), Panama ( Wirth and Blanton 1959), Jamaica ( Linley and Kettle 1964) and Costa Rica ( Spinelli and Borkent 2004). In their review of West Indian Culicoides, Wirth and Blanton (1974) also recorded it from Antigua, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Dominica and Saint Lucia. We provide the first record of this wide-ranging species from Guadeloupe.

New records. Guadeloupe , Basse Terre, NE Pigeon (16.14404°° N, 61.74977° W), 18-V-2012, R. H. Turnbow, BL trap, 1 male, 1 female ; same data except 17-V-2012, 1 female ; same data except 23-V-2012, 1 male ; same data except Trace des Cretes (D-14), 22-V-2012, 3 males ; same data except Pointe a Lezard, 20-V-2012, 1 male. New Guadeloupe record .