Article
New Neotropical Culicoides and redescription of Culicoides reticulatus Lutz (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)
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SANTARÉM, Maria Clara Alves et al. New Neotropical Culicoides and redescription of Culicoides reticulatus Lutz (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae).Zootaxa, v.3795, n.3, p.255-274, 2014.
1175-5334
10.11646/zootaxa.3795.3.2
Autor
Santarém, Maria Clara Alves
Trindade, Rosimeire Lopes da
Silva, Tiago do Nascimento da
Castellón, Eloy Guillermo
Patiu, Cátia Antunes de Mello
Bauer, Maria Luiza Felippe
Resumen
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.