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 (Haematomyidium) darlingtonaeWirth & Blanton, 1971Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: J.F. Medeiros; sex: 2 females, 3 males; lifeStage: adult; Location: country: Brazil; stateProvince: Rondônia; municipality: Espigão do Oeste; verbatimCoordinates: 11°67'63"S; 60°69'90"W; Event: samplingProtocol: HP light traps; eventDate: 2014-04; habitat: forest

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: J.F. Medeiros; sex: 3 females, 5 males; lifeStage: adult; Location: country: Brazil; stateProvince: Rondônia; municipality: Pimenta Bueno; verbatimLocality: Usina Hidrelétrica Rondon II; verbatimCoordinates: 11°96'48"S; 60°69'90"W; Event: samplingProtocol: HP light traps; eventDate: 2014-10-10/11; habitat: fragment forest

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

Diagnosis

Eyes narrowly separated, with short interfacetal hairs; third palpal segment considerably swollen its full length, with shallow and round sensory pit; proboscis short; thorax dark brown; legs brown, knee spots blackish; second radial cell included in a dark spot to its apex, cell r3 with contiguous poststigmatic pale spots, cell m1 with two pale spots, cell m2 with small pale spot; two spermathecae and rudimentary third, with sclerotized ring (Wirth and Blanton 1971).

Distribution

Costa Rica, Trinidad and Brazil (Rondônia) (Borkent and Spinelli 2007, Farias et al. 2016a, Santarém and Felippe-Bauer 2017 and Wirth and Blanton 1971).

Notes

This species was here recorded for the first time in Brazil.

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