Revision of the Immaculatus Group of Culicoides Latreille (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from the Australasian region with description of two new species

G.A. Bellis; A.L. Dyce; David Gopurenko; Andrew Mitchell

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3680.1.4

Revision of the Immaculatus Group of Culicoides Latreille (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from the Australasian region with description of two new species

G.A. Bellis, A.L. Dyce, David Gopurenko, Andrew Mitchell

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The Immaculatus Group of Culicoides encompassing four species from Australia, New Caledonia, Fiji, Solomon Islands, New Guinea and the Malay archipelago is revised. A diagnosis for the group, descriptions of males and females of C.shivasi sp. n. and C. collessi sp. n., a description of the male of C. immaculatus Lee & Reye, a redescription of the female of C. immaculatus and a diagnosis of C. agas Wirth & Hubert together with keys for their specific determination are presented. Specific separation of the morphologically similar C. shivasi and C. immaculatus is supported by DNA barcodes (mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase I or COI) and nuclear carbomoylphosphate synthetase (CAD) sequence data.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	15-37
Number of pages	23
Journal	Zootaxa
Volume	3680
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3680.1.4
Publication status	Published - Jun 2013

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Revision of the Immaculatus Group of Culicoides Latreille (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from the Australasian region with description of two new species

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