Subgenus Mataemyia Varg as

Mataemyia Vargas, 1960: 43 (as subgenus of Culicoides). Type species, Culicoides mojingaensis Wirth & Blanton (orig.des.). Refs.: Wirth & Soria, 1981 (key males and females to some species, as discrepans group).

dalessandroi Wirth & Barreto, 1978: 556 . Type locality: Colombia, Valle del Cauca (Río Raposo). HT F (# 71154 USNM). Distr.: Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia (Antioquia (Río Anorí), Boyacá (Puerto Boyacá), Meta (Finca Barbascal), Valle del Cauca (Río Raposo)). Refs.: Wirth & Barreto, 1978: 556; Barreto, 1986: 146; Wirth et al., 1988: 36; Borkent & Spinelli, 2007: 70; Spinelli et al., 2009: 89; Borkent, 2015: 81 (cat.).