Classification > Family
Ceratopogonidae
> Subfamily
Ceratopogoninae
> Tribe
Culicoidini
> Genus
Culicoides
Culicoides williamsi Spinelli, 2005
female wing
Geographic distribution
Distribution
Record
- Argentina
- Formosa
Other distribution
Paraguay
williamsi Spinelli, in Spinelli et al., 2005a: 147 (male, female). Type locality: Paraguay, Itapua, Ayolas, refugio Atinguy. HT F (MLPA). Distr.- Paraguay, Argentina (Formosa: Estancia La Marcela, 35 km E El Colorado, 26°17'21''S, 59°08'40''W). Refs.: Spinelli et al., 2005a: 147.
Male: only species of the fluvialis group in wich the ventral root of gonoxite lacks a heellike expansion and with the distal portion of parameres bearing a lateral fringe of the spicules, wich are very inconspicuous. Female is the only species of the group with a narrow pale spot on crossvein r-m cell r3, and the distal pale spot in cell r3 divided into two smaller, oblique pale spot.
Male: only species of the fluvialis group in wich the ventral root of gonoxite lacks a heellike expansion and with the distal portion of parameres bearing a lateral fringe of the spicules, wich are very inconspicuous. Female is the only species of the group with a narrow pale spot on crossvein r-m cell r3, and the distal pale spot in cell r3 divided into two smaller, oblique pale spot.
- SPINELLI, G. R., ET. AL.,. 2005. The bloodsucking midges of Argentina (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. 100 (2): 137-150.:137-150.
