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Culicoides (Haematomyidium)
Culicoides (Haematomyidium) lahillei (Iches, 1906)
female wing
Geographic distribution
Distribution
Record
- Argentina
- Chaco
- Corrientes
- Jujuy
- Misiones
Other distribution
Widely distributed, from the Southeast of the United States of North America to Argentina (Chaco, Corrientes, Misiones, Jujuy), without records in the Antilles and Mexico.
lahillei (Iches), 1906: 264 (Ceratopogon, female). Type locality: Argentina, Chaco Austral. Type material (apparently lost). Distr.- Perú, Argentina (Jujuy: 50 km W Fraile Pintado, 23°54'S, 65°02'W, 900 m. Salta: Aguas Blancas, 22°34'S, 64° 22'W; El Oculto, 23°06'S, 64°30'W; San Ramón de la Nueva Orán, 23°08'S, 64°20'W. Tucumán: Sargento Moya, 27°11'S, 65°38'W, 458 m; La Florida, 27°13'S, 65°37'W, 452 m; Capitán Cáceres, 27°11'S, 65°36'W, 414 m; Chaco: Pampa del Indio, 26°08'S, 59º58'W; PN El Chaco, 26º48'25"S, 56º26'36.5"W, 76 m. Misiones: Iguazú Cué, 25°40'56.18"S, 54°34'36.11"W;Corpus, 27°6'22.43"S, 55°31'24.71"W. Corrientes: Santa Tecla, 27°36'57.67"S, 56°23'14.66"W; Destacamento de Prefectura Paniagua, 10 km S Monte Caseros, 30°20'23.42"S, 57°39'21.48"W; Mocoretá, 30°37'06.63"S, 57°58'31.17"W. Entre Ríos: Gualeguaychú, 33°0'26.40"S, 58°30'2.69"W), southeastern Brazil, Paraguay. Refs.: Iches, 1906: 264; Spinelli & Wirth, 1986: 62; Shelley & Coscarón, 2001: 454; Spinelli & Ronderos, 1991: 91; Ronderos et al., 2003b: 22; Veggiani Aybar et al., 2010: 97; Veggiani Aybar et al., 2011: 1021;Veggiani Aybar et al., 2012a: 4; Refs.: Veggiani Aybar et al., 2012b: 799.
NEW RECORD:
Jujuy: PN Calilegua, 23°40'17.58"S, 64°52'0.59"W. Formosa: Las Lomitas, 24°42'14.41"S, 60°35'11.08"W. Chaco: Laguna Limpia, 26°29'43.50"S, 59°40'52.36"W; Colonia Elisa, 26°55'54.34"S, 59°31'5.34"W; Colonias Unidas, 26°41'53.95"S, 59°37'48.32"W. Misiones: Puerto Iguazú, 25°40'S, 54°33'W; PN Iguazú, Garganta del Diablo, 25°41'33.28"S, 54°26'21.41"W; Montecarlo, 26°34'10.62"S, 54°47'50.59"W; Paranay, 26°40'33.82"S, 54°49'13.44"W; Tobuna, 26°28'1.24"S, 53°53'24.77"W; Posadas, arroyo Mártires, 27°24'26.66"S, 55°57'29.29"W. Corrientes: Garapé, 27°36'5.30"S, 56°14'44.44"W.
Diagnosis.
Sensilas present in flagellar segments 3, 8-10. Third segment of the thin maxillary palpus, with a small fossa. Second radial cell included in a dark area; clear post-stigmatic areas well separated and oblique; marked separation of the clear distal area of cell M1 with respect to the edge of the wing. Two spermatheca; rudimentary third and sclerotized ring present.
NEW RECORD:
Jujuy: PN Calilegua, 23°40'17.58"S, 64°52'0.59"W. Formosa: Las Lomitas, 24°42'14.41"S, 60°35'11.08"W. Chaco: Laguna Limpia, 26°29'43.50"S, 59°40'52.36"W; Colonia Elisa, 26°55'54.34"S, 59°31'5.34"W; Colonias Unidas, 26°41'53.95"S, 59°37'48.32"W. Misiones: Puerto Iguazú, 25°40'S, 54°33'W; PN Iguazú, Garganta del Diablo, 25°41'33.28"S, 54°26'21.41"W; Montecarlo, 26°34'10.62"S, 54°47'50.59"W; Paranay, 26°40'33.82"S, 54°49'13.44"W; Tobuna, 26°28'1.24"S, 53°53'24.77"W; Posadas, arroyo Mártires, 27°24'26.66"S, 55°57'29.29"W. Corrientes: Garapé, 27°36'5.30"S, 56°14'44.44"W.
Diagnosis.
Sensilas present in flagellar segments 3, 8-10. Third segment of the thin maxillary palpus, with a small fossa. Second radial cell included in a dark area; clear post-stigmatic areas well separated and oblique; marked separation of the clear distal area of cell M1 with respect to the edge of the wing. Two spermatheca; rudimentary third and sclerotized ring present.
- ICHES, L. 1906. Sobre cinco dípteros nuevos del Chaco Austral. Bol. Min. Agric. Gan. Argent. 6: 262-273:262-273.
- SPINELLI, G. R. & W. W. WIRTH. 1986b. Clave para la identificación de las especies del género Culicoides Latreille presentes al sur de la cuenca Amazónica. Nuevas citas y notas sinonímicas (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina. 44: 49-73.:62.
- SPINELLI, G. R. & M. M. RONDEROS. 1991. Los Polvorines del género Culicoides en áreas de influencia de la Represa de Salto Grande (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Neotropica, La Plata. 37(97): 83-94. ISSN: 0548-1686.:91.
- SHELLEY, A. J. & COSCARON, S. 2001. Simuliid blackflies (Diptera: Simuliidae) and ceratopogonid midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) as vectors of Mansonella ozzardi (Nematoda: Onchocercidae) in northern Argentina. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 96: 451-458
- RONDEROS, M. M., N. GRECO & G. R. SPINELLI. 2003. Diversity of biting midges of the genus Culicoides Latreille (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in the area of the Yacyretá dam lake between Argentina and Paraguay. Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Río de Janeiro. 98(1): 19-24. ISSN: 0074-0276.:22.
- VEGGIANI AYBAR, C.A., M. J. DANTUR, M. LIZARRALDE DE GROSSO & G. R. SPINELLI, G.R. 2010. Species diversity and seasonal abundante of Culicoides biting midges in northwestern Argentina. Medical and Veterinary Entomology. 24: 95–98.
- VEGGIANI AYBAR, C.A., M. J. DANTUR, M. LIZARRALDE DE GROSSO. & G. R. SPINELLI. 2011. Spatial and temporal distribution of Culicoides insignis and Culicoides paraensis in the subtropical mountain forest of Tucumán, northwestern Argentina. Florida Entomologist. 94: 1018–1025.
- VEGGIANI AYBAR, C.A., M. J. DANTUR., M. SANTANA, M. LIZARRALDE DE GROSSO & G. R. SPINELLI. 2012a. The spatio-temporal distribution patterns of biting midges of the genus Culicoides in Salta province, Argentina. Journal of Insect Science. 12: 1–10.
- VEGGIANI AYBAR, C.A., M. J. DANTUR, M. STEIN, M., G. ORIA, P. RAMÍREZ, M. LIZARRALDE DE GROSSO & G. R. SPINELLI. 2012b. New Records of Biting Midges of the Genus Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from the Yungas, Paranaense Rainforest and Chaco Ecoregions of Argentina. Florida Entomologist. 95: 798–799.
