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Zootaxa 3401: 66–68 (2012) ISSN 1175-5326 (print edition)

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Description of the male of Culicoides (Hoffmania) baniwa Felippe-Bauer of the


hylas species group (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)

ELOY GUILLERMO CASTELLÓN1, FELIPE ARLEY COSTA PESSOA2, GUSTAVO SPINELLI3 & MARIA LUIZA
FELIPPE-BAUER4
1
. Laboratório de Insetos sinantrópicos, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia. Av. André Araújo, 2936, Aleixo, CEP 69060-
001, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil. E-mail: eloygcb@gmail.com
2
. Programa de Ecologia de Doenças Transmissíveis na Amazônia, Instituto Leônidas e Maria Deane - Fiocruz Amazônia Rua
Terezina, 476. Adrianópolis. CEP: 69.057-070 Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil.
E-mail: facpessoa@amazonia.fiocruz.br
3.
División Entomología, Museo de La Plata, Paseo del Bosque s/n, 1900 La Plata, Argentina,
E-mail: spinelli@fcnym.unlp.edu.ar
Laboratório de Diptera, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz-Fiocruz, Av. Brasil, 4365, CEP 21040-900, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
E-mail: mlfbauer@ioc.fiocruz.br

Borkent (2012) recognized 44 Neotropical species of Culicoides Latreille in the subgenus Hoffmania Fox. Of these, 33
belong to the C. guttatus species group and 11 to the C. hylas species group. One species in the latter group, Culicoides
baniwa Felippe-Bauer, was recently described based on a female specimen collected in São Gabriel da Cachoeira,
Amazonas, Brazil (Felippe-Bauer et al., 2009). The authors also include a key and a synopsis of the species of this group,
which includes seven species inhabiting the Brazilian Amazon Region.
The purpose of this paper is to describe and illustrate the previously unknown male of C. baniwa Felippe-Bauer
based on specimens collected with a CDC light trap at the type locality and in Peruvian Amazon. For ease of comparison,
the diagnosis of the female is also included.
Material and Methods. The males described herein were collected in Brazilian and Peruvian Amazon Area, slide-
mounted in Canada Balsam in the manner described by Wirth & Marston (1968) and housed in the Entomological
Collection of Instituto de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), and the Museo de La Plata, Argentina (MLP), respectively. A
detailed description of the female of C. baniwa may be found in Felippe-Bauer et al. (2009). Terms for structures follow
the Manual of Central America Diptera (Brown et al., 2009).

Culicoides baniwa Felippe-Bauer, 2009 (Figs. 1–10)

Culicoides baniwa Felippe-Bauer, (in Felippe-Bauer et al., 2009): 852 (female; Brazil; figs. antenna, palpus, legs, spermathecae, wing
photo; in key; distribution).

Female diagnosis: Only species in the hylas group of the subgenus Hoffmania Fox with a long proboscis (P/H ratio
1.48), double pale spots in r3, with one crossing the second radial cell and other in distal portion of r3, absence of the
pale spot in front of the base of M1, mid femur dark to tip and a pale fifth palpal segment.
Male diagnosis: Similar to female with usual sexual differences.The male genitalia of C. baniwa is notched
posteromedially, apicolateral processes absent, posterior margin gonostylus pale, broad basally, abruptly tapering to
slender apex. Parameres broadly fused at basal half.
Male description: Antennal pedicel dark brown; flagellomeres pale brown, basal portion of flagellomeres pale, distal
portion darker. Sensilla coeloconica on each of flagellomeres 1–13, two on 1, one on each of 2–13. Palpus (Figs. 1–2)
brown except first, fifth segments entirely pale; third, fourth segments pale basally, P.R. 3.60. P/H ratio: 0.64–0.68 (0.67,
n=4) Wing length 1.25–1.33 mm (1.29, n=5), breadth 0.45–0.50 (0.48, n=5) mm, costal ratio 0.54–0.67 (0.67, n=5)
pigmentation pattern as in Fig. 3. Legs (Figs. 4–6) with mid-. hind femora entirely dark brown, hind tibial comb with
seven spines. Terminalia (Figs. 7–9): tergite 9 reaching level of apex of gonocoxite distally, apicolateral processes
absent, posterior margin rounded, notched posteromedially; (evident in figs 7 and 8); sternite 9 with shallow
posteromedial excavation. Gonocoxite 2 X longer than broad, ventral root small, dorsal root long, slender; gonostylus

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pale, broad basally, abruptly tapering to slender apex, nearly straight for distal half. Parameres (Fig. 10) broadly fused at
basal half; base slightly excavated anteriorly; distal portion U-shaped at base, each half abruptly tapering to elongate,
slender filament with very fine finge of spicules. Aedeagus (Fig. 9) triangular with low, straight basal arch; basal arms
slender, slightly curved; distal portion progressively tapering to tip; posteromedian process strongly sclerotized,
sclerotization extending anteriorly nearly to basal arch, apex with rounded papilla.

FIGURES 1–10. Culicoides baniwa Felippe-Bauer, male. 1. Head, anterior view. 2. Mouth part showing palpi. 3. Wing. 4. Foreleg. 5.
Midleg. 6. Hind leg. 7. Terminalia of Peruvian specimen, dorsal view. 8. Terminalia of Brazilian specimen, dorsal view. 9. Part of
genitalia with parameres removed, part of tergite 9 not completed drawn, dorsal view. 10. Parameres.

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Discussion: Although the males herein recorded were not collected associated with females, they exhibit the same
extragenital characters diagnostic for the females of C. baniwa: fifth palpal segment pale, mid femur dark to tip, presence
of a double distal pale spot in cell r3, and absence of pale spot in front of base of vein M1.The male genitalia of C.
baniwa is similar to that of C. hylas Macfie. However, in the latter species tergite 9 is shorter, not notched
posteromedially and bears a small, posteromesal papilliform process, the gonostylus is curved and progressively tapering
distally, the basal arch of the parameres is nearly straight and the sclerotization of the posteromedian process of the
aedeagus is shorter and not abutting basal arch. Probably the occurrence of this species, with a new records in Cuzco
Province, around 1.300 kilometers from the type locality, is well distributed in all the Amazon basin.
Specimens examined: Areas of Collection: 1 male, at light, Brazil - Br. 307, Rodovia Perimetral Norte, Km. 54,
Torre da LBA, São Gabriel da Cachoeira (00º 12' 44.6"; 66º 53' 00" W), 84 m masl; Sabá Gómes, P. Santos, E.G.
Castellón, 24/09 -01/10/2008, near of type locality of the species. Perú - Cuzco prov., Pagoreni (11º 42' 21,9'' S - 72º 54'
21,9'' W), 510 m masl, 15-II-2004, J.D. Williams, 1 male, at light; Perú, Cuzco prov., Kirigueti (11º 38' 13'' S - 73º 07'
07'' W), 395 masl, 24-II-2004, J.D. Williams, 3 males, at light.

Acknowledgments

To MCTI-INPA, FINEP (Border project) and CAPES, for support; to Sebastião Pereira Gomes and Plinio E. Silva Santos
for the assistence in field works. Elvis Vasquez drew the parameres and aedeagus.

References

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2012.http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/research/FLYTREE/CulicoidesSubgenera.pdf
Brown, B.V., Borkent, A., Cumming, J.M, Wood, D.M., Woodley, N.E. & Zumbado, M.A. (2009) Manual of Central
American Diptera: Volume 1. NRC Research Press, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. 714 pp.
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