Culicoides carpenteri Wirth & Blanton, 1953

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 carpenteri Wirth & Blanton, 1953

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: J.F. Medeiros; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; Location: country: Brazil; stateProvince: Rondônia; municipality: Costa Marques; verbatimCoordinates: 12°24'25"S; 64°14'26"W; Event: samplingProtocol: HP light traps; eventDate: 2015-05-22; habitat: forest

Diagnosis

Third palpal segment scarcely swollen, with a broad, shallow sensory pit; second radial cell very dark, large pale area over r-m crossvein, extensive distal pale spot in cell r3 broadly extending across cell near apex from anterior wing margin to vein M1; apices of veins M1, M2 and CuA1 dark; subapical pale spot in cell m2, distal pale spot in cell m1 broadly meeting wing margin; two pale spots in distal part of cell m2, the distal one broadly meeting wing margin; the proximal one connected by a pale area extending to base of cell and including the pale spots lying in front of mediocubital fork and behind medial fork; pale area in cell CuA1 nearly filling entire cell; anal cell pale except for a large dark area centering on middle of stem of mediocubital vein; halter pale ( Wirth and Blanton 1959).

Distribution

Costa Rica, Panama, Ecuador, Bolivia and Brazil (Amazonas and Rondônia) ( Borkent and Spinelli 2007, Farias et al. 2016a, Santarém and Felippe-Bauer 2017 and Wirth and Blanton 1953).

Notes

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