Culicoides (Hoffmania) ignacioi Forattini, 1957

Carvalho, Luis Paulo Costa, Farias, Emanuelle de Sousa, Gil, Luiz Herman Soares, Pessoa, Felipe Arley Costa & Medeiros, Jansen Fernandes, 2017, New species records of Culicoides biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) for the state of Rondonia in Brazilian Amazon, Biodiversity Data Journal 5, pp. 13075-13075 : 13075

Culicoides (Hoffmania) ignacioi Forattini, 1957

Culicoides (Hoffmania) ignacioi Synonyms: C. saintjusti Tavares & Ruiz, 1980

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: L.P.C. Carvalho; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Location: country: Brazil; stateProvince: Rondônia; municipality: Porto Velho; locationRemarks: Pesque e Pague Farm; verbatimCoordinates: 08°40'02"S; 63°42'14"W; Event: samplingProtocol: HP light traps; eventDate: 2015-05-13 /14; habitat: pasture Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: J.F. Medeiros; individualCount: 3; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; Location: country: Brazil; stateProvince: Rondônia; municipality: Guajará-Mirim; verbatimCoordinates: 10°47'18"S; 65°20'32"W; Event: samplingProtocol: HP light traps; eventDate: 2013-10; habitat: forest

Diagnosis

Eyes contiguous, separated by a distance equal to the diameter of 1.5 ommatidial facets; third palpus segment broad in middle, with conspicuous irregular pit; wing as shown in figure; halter knob dark brown, pedicel pale. This species is similar to C. fernandoi , but can be distinguished by the mandible which has 20-22 teeth (14-15 in C. fernandoi ), vein R3 pale (infuscated on lower portion with a very small dark spot behind apex in C. fernandoi ), distal pale spot in cell r3 large, transverse (crescent-shaped or subdivided in C. fernandoi ) ( Spinelli et al. 1993).

Distribution

Brazil (Acre, Amazonas, Pará, Roraima, Maranhão, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and now in Rondônia) and Paraguay ( Borkent and Spinelli 2007, Farias et al. 2016a, Forattini 1957 and Santarém and Felippe-Bauer 2017).

Notes

This species was here recorded for the first time in Rondônia State.