A new Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) of the Reticulatus species group from Brazilian Amazon Region

Abstract

A new species of the Culicoides reticulatus species group, Culicoides kuripako Felippe-Bauer, is described and illustrated based on females and male specimens from the states of Amazonas and Pará, Brazil. The new species is compared with its similar sympatric congener, Culicoides paucienfuscatus Barbosa.

A study of Culicoides in Rondônia, in the Brazilian Amazon: species composition, relative abundance and potential vectors

“…The association of C. insignis with cattle can be explained by the characteristics of the pasture and/or corral, which have wet and muddy substrate with decaying organic matter, favouring the development of immature stages (Wirth, ; Kettle, ). Although Culicoides kuripako (92.3%) was predominant in pastures in the present study, there is no information about its habitat preferences (Felippe‐Bauer et al , ).…”

Culicoides castelloni sp. nov. from the Brazilian Amazon Region with a revision of the reticulatus species group (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae)

“…This consideration was followed by Borkent andSpinelli (2000, 2007). Recently, Felippe-Bauer et al (2010) described Culicoides kuripako FelippeBauer from the Brazilian Amazon, and Santarém et al (2014) redescribed C. reticulatus Lutz and recognized seven species very similar to C. reticulatus Lutz on several morphological aspects and included them in the reticulatus species group. Currently, the reticulatus species group is known to contain 23 species well distributed in the neotropics and despite the uncertainty of the monophyly of the group, we maintain this group of species, until further phylogenetic studies are made.…”