Culicoides (Haematomyidium) dellapei Spinelli, Ronderos & Díaz
 
Geographic distribution
Distribution
Record
  • Argentina
    • Buenos Aires
Other distribution
 
dellapei Spinelli, Ronderos & Díaz, 2021: 404 (female). Type locality: Argentina, Buenos Aires, Tandil, 37°20'13.00"S, 59°07'58"W. HT F (MLPA). Distr.: Argentina (Buenos Aires: type locality). Refs.: Spinelli et al., 2021: 404.

Diagnosis.
The only Neotropical species of the subgenus C. (Haematomyidium Goeldi) with the following combination of characters: females with flagellomeres 4–12 subequal in length; sensilla coeloconica on flagellomeres 1, 6–8; palpal segment 3 slender, slightly swollen on distal 1/3, with subapical pit; poststigmatic pale spots in r3 fused in an oblique double spot; cell m1 with two pale spots, distal one well separated from wing margin; cell m2 with pale spot posterior to medial fork, without pale spot anterior to cubital fork; macrotrichia sparse on distal third of cells r3 and m1, only few at extreme apical margin in m2, cua1 and anal cell, absent in base of m2. Male unknown.

We are pleased to name this species after its collector, Dr. Pablo Dellapé, entomologist at the Museo de La Plata
  • SPINELLI, G. R., M. M. RONDEROS & F. DÍAZ . 2021. Two new species and new records of Neotropical Culicoides Latreille (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Zootaxa. 4915 (3): 401–410 :401-410.
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