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Culicoides (Anilomyia)
Culicoides (Anilomyia) nigrigenus Wirth & Blanton, 1956
female wing
Geographic distribution
Distribution
Record
- Argentina
- Salta
Other distribution
Mexico (Veracruz) to Colombia
Trinidad
Trinidad
nigrigenus Wirth & Blanton, 1956: 222 (male, female). Type locality: Panamá, Bocas del Toro, Almirante. HT F (USNM). Distr.: Mexico (Veracruz) to Colombia, Trinidad, Argentina (Salta: PN El Rey, 24°41'60.00"S, 64°37'60.00"W). Refs.: Ronderos & Spinelli, 1990: 85.
Diagnosis.
Sensilas present in flagellar segments 3-15; antennial ratio 1.62. Third bulky palpal segment, with wide sensory fossa. Yellowish brown mesonotus, with dark brown V-shaped spot just in front of the escutcheon. Wing with extensive interconnected light areas, and small dark areas arranged in a transverse direction. Two spermatheca, absent ring. Distal portion of the parameters abruptly recurred lateral and then ventromesad.
Species very similar to C. chacoensis Spinelli & Wirth.
Diagnosis.
Sensilas present in flagellar segments 3-15; antennial ratio 1.62. Third bulky palpal segment, with wide sensory fossa. Yellowish brown mesonotus, with dark brown V-shaped spot just in front of the escutcheon. Wing with extensive interconnected light areas, and small dark areas arranged in a transverse direction. Two spermatheca, absent ring. Distal portion of the parameters abruptly recurred lateral and then ventromesad.
Species very similar to C. chacoensis Spinelli & Wirth.
- WIRTH, W. W. & E. S. BLANTON. 1956b. Studies in Panamá Culicoides VII. The Neotropical species of the guttatus group of the subgenus Hoffmania (Diptera: Heleidae). Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 58: 211-227:211-227.
- RONDEROS, M.M & G. R. SPINELLI. 1990. Further notes on Culicoides Latreille 1809 from Argentina (Insecta, Diptera, Ceratopogonidae). Iheringia, Porto Alegre. 70: 81-89. ISSN: 0073-4721.:81-89.
