Description of Culicoides paradoxalis sp. nov. from France and Portugal (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)
Year: 2013
Type: article
Abstract: A new species, Culicoides paradoxalis Ramilo and Delécolle (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), is described from specimens collected in France (Corsica and southeast region) and Portugal. This species resembles Culicoides lupicaris Downes and Kettle, and can be distinguished from this species and from Culicoides newsteadi Austen by its wing pattern, in addition to the absence of spines on the tarsomere 4 of female mid leg. In male, the presence of two appendices on the sternite 9 together with the absence of sensilla coeloconica on the flagellomere 11 is also useful to distinguish these three species. Separation from other members of the Culicoides subgenus is confirmed by the analysis of the Cytochrome Oxidase I (COI) mitochondrial marker.
Source: Zootaxa
Institutions: University of Lisbon, Centro de Investigação Interdisciplinar em Sanidade Animal, Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement, Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Université de Strasbourg, The Pirbright Institute, Charles University
Language: English
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2019328902