CarvalhoLuis Paulo CostaFariasEmanuelle de SousaGilLuiz Herman SoaresPessoaFelipe Arley CostaMedeirosJansen FernandesNew species records of Culicoides biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) for the state of Rondônia in Brazilian AmazonBiodivers Data J09520172017510.3897/BDJ.5.e13075Culicoides eublepharusMacfie, 1948Culicoides eublepharus Synonyms: C. transferrans Ortiz, 1953Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: J.F. Medeiros; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; Location: country: Brazil; stateProvince: Rondônia; municipality: Cacoal; verbatimCoordinates: 11°25'53"S; 61°26'52"W; Event: samplingProtocol: HP light traps; eventDate: 2014-11-12/21; habitat: forest fragment

Diagnosis

Eyes narrowly separated, with long interfacetal hairs; third palpal segment moderately swollen, with a broad, shallow, sensory pit; wing with four pale spots in a rhomboid in cell r3, the distal pair usually fused and broadly attaining wing margin anteriorly; two pale spots each in cells m1 and apices of cells m2 and anal cell; pale spots present behind medial fork and in front of mediocubital fork; halter yellowish; spermatheca one, oval with a short portion of the duct sclerotized (Wirth and Blanton 1959).

Distribution

Mexico, Costa Rica to Venezuela and Ecuador and Brazil (Amazonas, Pará, Roraima and now in Rondônia) (Borkent and Spinelli 2007, Farias et al. 2016a, Macfie 1948 and Santarém and Felippe-Bauer 2017).

Notes

This species was here recorded for the first time in Rondônia State.

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