Culicoides baniwa sp.nov. from the Brazilian Amazon Region with a synopsis of the hylas species group (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)

Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Maria Luiza Felippe-bauer¹  Camila Pinto Damasceno¹  Victor Py-daniel¹  Gustavo R Spinelli¹ 

关键词: Amazon;    Brazil;    Culicoides baniwa sp.nov.;    Culicoides hylas group;    neotropical bloodsucking midges;    new record;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0074-02762009000600005

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

A new species of the Culicoides (Hoffmania) hylas species group, Culicoides baniwa Felippe-Bauer is described and illustrated based on a female specimen from the state of Amazonas, Brazil. A systematic key, wing photographs, diagramme of the legs pattern, table with numerical characters of females and a synopsis of the 11 species of the C. hylas group are presented. This paper further presents a new record of Culicoides pseudoheliconiae Felippe-Bauer out of the previously defined geographic distribution of the hylas species group, in the province of Misiones, Argentina.

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