Culicoides castelloni sp. nov. from the Brazilian Amazon Region with a revision of the reticulatus species group (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae)

• Main Authors: Maria Clara A. Santarém, Emanuelle S. Farias, Maria Luiza Felippe-Bauer
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Academia Brasileira de Ciências 2015-06-01
• Series: Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências
• Subjects: maruins; grupo Culicoidesreticulatus; Culicoides neotropicais; novos registros; nova espécie
• Online Access: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37652015000200955&lng=en&tlng=en
• ISSN: 1678-2690

A new species of the reticulatus species group, C. castelloni Santarém and Felippe-Bauer, is described and illustrated based on female specimens from the state of Amazonas, Brazil. A systematic key, wing photographs and table with numerical characters of females and a synopsis of 24 species of the Culicoides reticulatus group are presented. This paper presents further new records for seven species of the reticulatus group.