A new Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) of the Reticulatus species group from Brazilian Amazon Region

Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Diptera. Rio de Janeiro, RJ. Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Diptera. Rio de Janeiro, RJ. Brasil / Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia. Laboratório de Etnoepidemiologia. Manaus, AM, Brasil.
Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi. Belém, PA, Brasil.
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia. Laboratório de Etnoepidemiologia. Manaus, AM, Brasil.

Abstract

A new species of the Culicoides reticulatus species group, Culicoides kuripako Felippe-Bauer, is described and illustrated based on females and male specimens from the states of Amazonas and Pará, Brazil. The new species is compared with its similar sympatric congener, Culicoides paucienfuscatus Barbosa.

Keywords in Portuguese

Amazonas
Brasil
Culicoides kuripako sp. nov
Pará
mosquitos

Keywords

Culicoides kuripako sp. nov
neotropical bloodsucking midges
Pará
Amazonas
Brazil

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Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Citation

FELIPPE-BAUER, Maria Luiza; et al. A new Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) of the Reticulatis species groups from Brazilian Amazon Region. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz, v.105, n.7, p.863-865, Nov. 2010.

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0074-0276

Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://www.arca.fiocruz.br/handle/icict/30373

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