Culicoides gabaldoni Ortiz, 1954

Huerta, Rodríguez, Ana M., William L. Grogan, Jr. & Ibáñez-Bernal, Sergio, 2012, New records of biting midges of the genus Culicoides Latreille from Mexico (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), Insecta Mundi 2012 (211), pp. 1-20 : 15-16

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5174160
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5187010
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scientific name	Culicoides gabaldoni Ortiz
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Culicoides gabaldoni Ortiz View in CoL

Culicoides gabaldoni Ortiz, 1954: 221 ( Venezuela) View in CoL ; Borkent and Spinelli 2000: 39 (in catalog of Americas south of the USA; distribution).

Culicoides ( Oecacta) gabaldoni: Wirth and Blanton 1959: 431 View in CoL (in Culicoides View in CoL of Panama; distribution).

Discussion. This Neotropical species ranges from Mexico south to Ecuador, Venezuela, Trinidad, Brazil, Paraguay and northeastern Argentina ( Borkent and Spinelli 2000, 2007). It was previously known in Mexico from only Tabasco ( Wirth et al. 1988); we provide the first records from Oaxaca and Veracruz.

New records. Oaxaca, San Juan Guichicovi, El Zacatal, 26-28 July 2009, S. B. Salceda, A. Rodríguez & A. J. Ordoñez, CDC trap, 1 male. Veracruz, Alto Lucero, Arroyo Agrío, 2 September 2009, Entomological brigade JS IV, Malaise trap, 1 female ; Vega de Alatorre , Emilio Carranza, 26 May 2009, Entomological brigade JS IV, CDC trap, 1 female .