Culicoides ( Hoffmania ) foxi Ortiz, 1950

Huerta, Rodríguez, Ana M., William L. Grogan, Jr. & Ibáñez-Bernal, Sergio, 2012, New records of biting midges of the genus Culicoides Latreille from Mexico (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), Insecta Mundi 2012 (211), pp. 1-20 : 11

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5174160
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5186992
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scientific name	Culicoides ( Hoffmania ) foxi Ortiz
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Culicoides ( Hoffmania) foxi Ortiz View in CoL

Culicoides foxi Ortiz, 1950: 461 View in CoL ( Puerto Rico).

Culicoides ( Hoffmania) foxi: Wirth and Blanton 1959: 283 View in CoL (review of Culicoides View in CoL of Panama; distribution).

Discussion. This wide ranging Neotropical species is known from Mexico south to Bolivia and northeastern Argentina and Puerto Rico ( Borkent and Spinelli 2007). It was previously known in Mexico from only Veracruz ( Wirth and Blanton 1974); we provide the first records from Oaxaca and additional records from Veracruz.

New records. Oaxaca, San Juan Guichicovi, El Zacatal , 26-28 July 2009, S. B. Salceda, A. Rodríguez & A. J. Ordoñez, CDC trap, 1 female ; Istmo de Tehuantepec, Jaltepec river, 21 May 1964, 27 females. Veracruz, Atzalan , Plan de Arroyos , 26 Feb 2008, Entomological brigada JS IV, CDC trap, 2 females ; Alto Lucero, Arroyo Agrío , 2 September 2009, Entomological brigade JS IV, CDC trap, 1 male ; same data except 5 September 2008, Malaise trap, 1 male ; same data except CDC trap, 1 male ; Actopan, Soyacuautla , 4 September 2008, Entomological brigade JS IV, CDC trap, 1 female .