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Culicoides arubae Fox & Hoffman 1944

Description

arubae Fox & Hoffman, 1944: 109. Type locality: Aruba. HT F (UNPR). Distr.: USA (Texas), Mexico (Yucatán), Aruba and Grenada, to Colombia (Magdalena (?)) and Venezuela. Refs.: Fox & Hoffman, 1944: 109; Wirth & Blanton, 1974: 15; Barreto, 1986: 148; Borkent & Spinelli, 2007: 75; Spinelli et al., 2009: 90.

Notes

Published as part of Spinelli, Gustavo & Wolff, Marta, 2016, FAMILY CERATOPOGONIDAE, pp. 98-141 in Zootaxa 4122 (1) on page 119, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4122.1.15, http://zenodo.org/record/256311

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Biodiversity

Family
Ceratopogonidae
Genus
Culicoides
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Diptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Fox & Hoffman
Species
arubae
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Culicoides arubae Fox, 1944 sec. Spinelli & Wolff, 2016

References

  • Fox, I. & Hoffman, W. A. (1944) New Neotropical biting sand flies of the genus Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Puerto Rico Journal of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, 20, 108 - 111.
  • Wirth, W. W. & Blanton, F. S. (1974) The West Indian sandflies of the genus Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Technical Bulletin, 1474, iv + 98 pp.
  • Barreto, P. (1986) Catalogo de los Culicoides (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae) de Colombia. Colombia Medica, 17, 140 - 150.
  • Borkent, A. & Spinelli, G. R. (2007) Neotropical Ceratopogonidae (Diptera: Insecta). In: Adis J., Arias J. R., Rueda-Delgado G., Wantzen K. M. (Eds.), Aquatic Biodiversity in Latin America (ABLA). Vol. 4. Pensoft, Sofia-Moscow, pp. 1 - 198.
  • Spinelli, G. R., Santamaria, E., Cabrera, O. L., Ronderos, M. M. & Suarez, M. F. (2009) Five new species of Culicoides Latreille described from Colombia, yielding a new species list and country records (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 104, 81 - 92. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1590 / S 0074 - 02762009000100013