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Culicoidini
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Culicoides (Hoffmania)
Culicoides (Hoffmania) charruus Spinelli & Martinez, 1992
wing female
Geographic distribution
Distribution
Record
- Argentina
- Buenos Aires
- Misiones
Other distribution
Paraguay
Uruguay
Uruguay
charruus Spinelli & Martinez, 1992: 176 (as charrua; pupa, female, male). Type locality: Uruguay, Departamento San José, Playa Pascual, in Eryngium serra. HTF (MLPA). Distr.- Paraguay, Argentina (Misiones: Corpus, 27°6'22.43"S, 55°31'24.71"W; Posadas, arroyo Mártires, 27°24'26.66"S, 55°57'29.29"W; Buenos Aires: Mar de Ajó, 36°43'27.91"S, 56°42'23.86"W), Uruguay. Refs.: Ronderos & Spinelli, 1998: 81; Ronderos et al., 2003b: 22; Ronderos et al., 2008: 116.
NEW RECORD:
Misiones: arroyo Anyico at km 813 national Rt. 14, aprox. 30 km N San José, 27°39'52.76"S, 55°36'31.35"W
Culicoides charruus Spinelli & Martinez (1992), is known from Paraguay, Argentina y Uruguay. The pupa was partially described by Spinelli & Martinez, and Spinelli et al., (1993). Ronderos et al., (2008) described larva of C. charruus, and redescribed the pupa more fully, and provided data on the life cycle and locomotion of the larva, based on inmatures collected from water accumulated in the leaf axils of Eryngium pandanifolium.
NEW RECORD:
Misiones: arroyo Anyico at km 813 national Rt. 14, aprox. 30 km N San José, 27°39'52.76"S, 55°36'31.35"W
Culicoides charruus Spinelli & Martinez (1992), is known from Paraguay, Argentina y Uruguay. The pupa was partially described by Spinelli & Martinez, and Spinelli et al., (1993). Ronderos et al., (2008) described larva of C. charruus, and redescribed the pupa more fully, and provided data on the life cycle and locomotion of the larva, based on inmatures collected from water accumulated in the leaf axils of Eryngium pandanifolium.
- SPINELLI, G. R. & M. E. MARTINEZ. 1991. The genus Culicoides de Uruguay (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Insecta Mundi. 5 (3-4):175-179.
- RONDEROS, M. M. & G. R. SPINELLI. 1998. Las especies de Culicoides en el área de influencia de la represa Yacyretá (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Revista Sociedad Entomológica Argentina, Buenos Aires. 57(1-4): 79-83. ISSN: 0373-5680
- 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.
- RONDEROS, M. M., G. R. SPINELLI & A. BORKENT. 2008. A description of the larva and pupa of Culicoides charruus Spinelli & Martinez (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from leaf-axils in Argentina. Russian Entomological Journal. 17(1): 115-122. ISSN: 0132-7069.
