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Issue: Vol. 3795 No. 3: 13 May 2014
Type: Article
Published: 2014-05-13
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3795.3.2
Page range: 255–274
Abstract views: 23
PDF downloaded: 2

New Neotropical Culicoides and redescription of Culicoides reticulatus Lutz (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)

Coleção de Ceratopogonidae, Laboratório de Diptera, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Av. Brasil 4365, CEP 21040-900, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia, Museu Nacional/UFRJ, Quinta da Boa Vista, s/n., São Cristóvão, CEP 20940-040, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Divisão de Zoologia, Instituto de Pesquisas Científicas e Tecnológicas do Estado do Amapá, Rod. Juscelino Kubitschek, km 10, Fazendinha, CEP 68903-419/68903-197, Macapá, AP, Brazil.
Coleção de Ceratopogonidae, Laboratório de Diptera, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Av. Brasil 4365, CEP 21040-900, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Laboratório de Insetos Sinantrópicos, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Av. André Araújo, 2936, Aleixo, CEP 69060-001, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil.
Departamento de Entomologia, Museu Nacional/UFRJ, Quinta da Boa Vista, s/n., São Cristóvão, CEP 20940-040, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Coleção de Ceratopogonidae, Laboratório de Diptera, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Av. Brasil 4365, CEP 21040-900, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Culicoides reticulatus Lutz bloodsucking midges Brazil Colombia Panama new species

Abstract

Seven new species of the Culicoides reticulatus species group are described and illustrated based on specimens from Colombia, Panama and Brazilian states of northern (Amazonas, Pará and Roraima) and southeast region (Rio de Janeiro). The new species are compared with their similar congener, Culicoides reticulatus Lutz, and a systematic key, table with numerical characters to the females of the species are provided. Redescription of Culicoides reticulatus Lutz is given based on type series deposited in the Ceratopogonidae Collection of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Brazil. The distribution of these species is presented in figure 9.