biting midges — wirth and blanton 285 



Panama recokds: 



BocAS DEL ToRO PROVINCE: Almirante (Rfo Banana), Torres. 



Canal Zone: A.lbrook Field, Barro Colorado Island, Cabima, Fort Clayton, 

 Fort Gulick, Fort Kobbe (horse trap), Fort Sherman, France Field, Loma 

 Boracho, Madden Dam, Mandinga River, Mindi Dairy, Mojinga Swamp. 



CniRiQuf Province: Pedregal, Volcdn. 



Cocl6 Province: Aguadulce. 



Col6n Province: Pifia. 



Dari6n Province: El Real, Punta Patino. 



Herrera Province: Chitr6. 



Panama Province: Arraijdn, La Jolla, Tocumen. 



Discussion: The small, isolated dark spot near the tip of vein 

 R4+5 will readily separate this species from its relatives in the subgenus 

 Culicoides {H off mania) . 



6. Culicoides insignis Lutz 



Figure 9 



Culicoides insignis Lutz, 1913, Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz, vol. 5, p. 50 (male, 

 female, pupa; Rio de Janeiro and Bahia, Brazil; fig. female wing). — Costa 

 Lima, 1937, Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz, vol. 32, p. 415 (fig. female palpus). — 

 Floch and Abonnenc, 1942, Inst. Pasteur Guyane Terr. I'lnini, publ. 49, 

 p. 1 (French Guiana; fig. wing, palpus). — Barbosa, 1947, Anais Soc. Biol. 

 Pernambuco, vol. 7, p. 20 (notes on genitalia of male in Lutz collection; fig. 

 male genitahafrom Rio de Janeiro). — Macfie, 1948, Ann. Trop. Med. Parasit., 

 vol. 42, p. 75 (Chiapas, Mexico). — Fox, 1948, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 

 vol. 61, p. 25 (notes on female characters). — Barbosa, 1952, Novos Sub- 

 sidies . . . Culicoides Neotr6picos, p. 16 (Ceara, Brazil; notes on Lutz col- 

 lection) .—Wirth and Blanton, 1956, Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 58, 

 p. 319 (synonyms, inamollae, painteri). 



Culicoides guttatus Lutz (misident., not Coquillett), 1913, Mem. Inst. Oswaldo 

 Cruz, vol. 5, p. 58 (fig. wing).— Beck, 1952, Florida Ent., vol. 35, p. 102 

 (Florida records). 



Culicoides inamollae Fox and Hoffman, 1944, Puerto Rico Journ. Pub. Health 

 Trop. Med., vol. 20, p. 110 (male, female; Puerto Rico; fig. wing). — Fox, 

 1948, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 61, p. 25 (Florida; fig. male aedeagus, 

 parameres, female palpus); 1950, Puerto Rico Journ. Pub. Health Trop. 

 Med., vol. 25, p. 342.— Foote and Pratt, 1954, Pub. Health Monogr. no. 18, 

 p. 25 (United States records; fig. wing, mesonotum, palpus, male genitalia). — 

 Fox, 1955, Journ. Agr. Univ. Puerto Rico, vol. 39, p. 242 (synonyms, painteri 

 Fox, Oliver i Fox and Hoffman [sic]). 



Culicoides painteri Fox, 1946, Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer., vol. 39, p. 257 (female; 

 Honduras; fig. wing); 1948, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 61, p. 26 (fig. 

 male parameres, aedeagus, female palpus). 



Female: Length of wing 1.11 (0.89-1.25, n=24) mm. 



Head. — Eyes bare, contiguous. Antenna with flagellar segments in 

 proportion of 20:14:14:14:14:14:14:15:24:25:26:29:44, antennal 

 ratio 1.32; distal sensory tufts present on segments iii, v, vii, ix, 



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