Culicoides (Monoculicoides) sonorensis Wirth and Jones
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Culicoides variipennis sonorensis Wirth and Jones, 1957: 18 (Arizona).
Culicoides sonorensis: Holbrook et al. 2000: 70 (species status; genetic analysis of C. variipennis complex; distribution).
Culicoides (Monoculicoides) sonorensis: Borkent and Grogan 2009: 15 (in Nearctic catalog; distribution).
Culicoides variipennis australis Wirth and Jones, 1957: 15 (Louisiana); Atchley 1967: 975 (synonym of C. v. sonorensis); Holbrook et al. 2000: 70 (synonym of C. sonorensis).
Culicoides variipennis albertensis Wirth and Jones, 1957: 17 (Alberta); Holbrook et al. 2000: 70 (synonym of C. sonorensis).
Culicoides (Monoculicoides) variipennis: Blanton and Wirth 1979: 161 (Florida records, in part); Wilkening et al. 1985: 521 (Florida records, in part).
Culicoides occidentalis albertensis: Downes 1978: 63.
Discussion. Because Blanton and Wirth (1979) and Wilkening et al. (1985) did not specifically distinguish Florida specimens in the C. variipennis complex to subspecies, we list here all slide-mounted specimens of C. sonorensis from Florida in the USNM that were examined by Holbrook et al. (2000) and labeled by WLG.
New records. Escambia Co., Bratt, VI-1968, FS & AJ Blanton, light trap, 5 males, 1 female (USNM); same data except 27 August 1964, Blanton & Broce, 1 female (WLGC). Jackson Co., Marianna, May 1955, L. T. and Truck Trap, 2 females; 15 June 1955, light trap, 2 males, 1 female (USNM). Jefferson Co., Monticello, W. H. Whitcomb, B. L. trap, IV (19)69, 3 females; V-(19)69, 2 females (USNM).
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- Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.5352908 (DOI)
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Biodiversity
- Collection code
- FS, AJ, USNM , USNM , WLGC, T
- Event date
- 1955-06-15
- Verbatim event date
- 1955-06-15
- Scientific name authorship
- Wirth and Jones
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Diptera
- Family
- Ceratopogonidae
- Genus
- Culicoides
- Species
- sonorensis
- Taxon rank
- species
References
- Wirth, W. W., and R. H. Jones. 1957. The North American subspecies of C ulicoides variipennis (Diptera, Heleidae). United States Department of Agriculture Technical Bulletin 1170: 1 - 35.
- Holbrook, F. R., W. W. Tabachnick, E. T. Schmidtmann, C. N. McKinnon, R. J. Bobian, and W. L. Grogan. 2000. Sympatry in the Culicoides variipennis complex (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae): a taxonomic reassessment. Journal of Medical Entomology 37: 65 - 76.
- Borkent, A., and W. L. Grogan, Jr. 2009. Catalog of the New World biting midges north of Mexico (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Zootaxa 2273: 1 - 48.
- Atchley, W. R. 1967. The Culicoides of New Mexico (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). University of Kansas Science Bulletin 46: 937 - 1022.
- Blanton, F. S., and W. W. Wirth. 1979. The sand flies (Culicoides) of Florida (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Land Areas 10: 1 - 204.
- Wilkening, A. J., D. L. Kline, and W. W. Wirth. 1985. An annotated checklist of the Ceratopogonidae (Diptera) of Florida with a new synonymy. Florida Entomologist 68: 511 - 537.
- Downes, J. A. 1978. The Culicoides variipennis complex: a necessary re-alignment of nomenclature (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Canadian Entomologist 110: 63 - 69.