Culicoides (Monoculicoides) variipennis (Coquillett)

William L. Grogan, Jr., Hribar, Lawrence J., Murphree, C. Steven & Cilek, James E., 2010, New records of biting and predaceous midges from Florida, including species new to the fauna of the United States (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), Insecta Mundi 2010 (147), pp. 1-59 : 28

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scientific name	Culicoides (Monoculicoides) variipennis (Coquillett)
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Culicoides (Monoculicoides) variipennis (Coquillett) View in CoL

Ceratopogon variipennis Coquillett, 1901: 602 View in CoL (Virginia, New Jersey, Mexico).

Culicoides variipennis: Kieffer 1906: 55 View in CoL (combination); Holbrook et al. 2000: 68 (genetic analysis and revision of complex).

Culicoides variipennis variipennis: Wirth and Jones 1957: 12 View in CoL (Virginia syntype designated lectotype).

Culicoides (Monoculicoides) variipennis: Khalaf 1954: 40 View in CoL ; Blanton and Wirth 1979: 161 (Florida records, in part); Wilkening et al. 1985: 521 (Florida records, in part); Borkent and Grogan 2009: 15 (in Nearctic catalog; distribution).

Discussion. Because Blanton and Wirth (1979) and Wilkening et al. (1985) did not distinguish specimens of C. variipennis and C. sonorensis , we list below Florida records of C. variipennis identified and labeled by WLG in the FSCA and USNM. We also provide the first records from Walton Co.

New records. Alachua Co., Gainesville , Chantilly Acres, March 1968, F. S. Blanton, light trap, 1 female ( FSCA) ; Hawthorne , 27-IV-1968, F. S. Blanton, 15 females ( FSCA) ; same data, 1 male, 2 females ( USNM). Calhoun Co., Blountstown , 28-II-6-IV-1961, S. B. H., 22 females, 6 males ( FSCA) ; same data, 1 male, 5 females ( USNM). Escambia Co., Bratt , VI-IX-1968, FS & AJ Blanton, light trap, 20 males, 24 females ; same data, 16 males, 22 females ( USNM) ; Cantonment , VII-1961, Tidwell, 1 male ( USNM) ; Innerarity Pt., VIII-1965, Tidwell, 1 female ( USNM). Jefferson Co., Monticello, V-VII-1969, W. H. Whitcomb, B. L. Trap, 1 male, 3 females ( USNM). Walton Co., Grayton Beach , 26 October 2001, C. F. Hallmon, CO 2 baited CDC light trap, 2 females ( FAMC) .

References

Blanton, F. S., and W. W. Wirth. 1979. The sand flies (Culicoides) of Florida (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Land Areas 10: 1 - 204.

Borkent, A., and W. L. Grogan, Jr. 2009. Catalog of the New World biting midges north of Mexico (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Zootaxa 2273: 1 - 48.

Coquillett, D. W. 1901. New Diptera in the U. S. National Museum. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 23: 593 - 618.

Holbrook, F. R., W. W. Tabachnick, E. T. Schmidtmann, C. N. McKinnon, R. J. Bobian, and W. L. Grogan. 2000. Sympatry in the Culicoides variipennis complex (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae): a taxonomic reassessment. Journal of Medical Entomology 37: 65 - 76.

Khalaf, K. T. 1954. The speciation of the genus Culicoides (Diptera, Heleidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 47: 34 - 51.

Kieffer, J. J. 1906. Diptera. Fam. Chironomidae. In: P. Wytsman (ed.). Genera Insectorum. Fasc. 42: 1 - 78, 4 pls.

Wilkening, A. J., D. L. Kline, and W. W. Wirth. 1985. An annotated checklist of the Ceratopogonidae (Diptera) of Florida with a new synonymy. Florida Entomologist 68: 511 - 537.

Wirth, W. W., and R. H. Jones. 1957. The North American subspecies of C ulicoides variipennis (Diptera, Heleidae). United States Department of Agriculture Technical Bulletin 1170: 1 - 35.

Abbreviations

FSCA	Florida State Collection of Arthropods, The Museum of Entomology
USNM	Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History
AJ	Central Research Laboratories