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

A new species of the reticulatus species group, C. castelloni Santarém and Felippe-Bauer, is described and illustrated based on female specimens from the state of Amazonas, Brazil. A systematic key, wing photographs and table with numerical characters of females and a synopsis of 24 species of the Culicoides reticulatus group are presented. This paper presents further new records for seven species of the reticulatus group.

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Main Authors: Santarém,Maria Clara A., Farias,Emanuelle S., Felippe-Bauer,Maria Luiza
Format: Digital revista
Language:English
Published: Academia Brasileira de Ciências 2015
Online Access:http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37652015000200955
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