Culicoides ostotlae, Huerta & Spinelli & Grogan Jr, 2025

Huerta, Herón, Spinelli, Gustavo R. & Grogan Jr, William L., 2025, An atlas of wing photographs and a key to species of the genus Culicoides Latreille from Mexico (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), including new records, new synonymy, two new species and new status of Culicoides neghmei Vargas and C. propinquus Macfie, Zootaxa 5566 (1), pp. 1-51 : 33

Culicoides ostotlae s p. nov.

( Fig. 71 ; 93–98 )

Type series. HOLOTYPE. MEXICO, Chiapas, Parque Natural “El Aguacero, Gruta El Encanto”, 6-jun-1926, Mexican Fauna #162, light trap, Dampf A., female slide mounted , PARATYPE, female, same date ( CAIM) .

Figures

FIGURE 68–74. Wings, dorsal view. Female and male. Daedalus group: 68. Culicoides crescentis Wirth & Blanton, 69. Culicoides daedalus Macfie (male), 70. Culicoides pampoikilus Macfie, 71. Culicoides ostotlae sp. nov. Eublepharus group: 72. Culicoides eublepharus Macfie, 73. Culicoides propriipennis Macfie, 74. Culicoides rangeli Ortiz & Mirsa. Scale: 0.5 mm. Figs. 68 and 72, on a different scale.

FIGURE 93–98. Culicoides ostotlae sp. nov. Female. 93. Head, frontal view, 94.Thorax, lateral view, 95–97. Legs (fore, middle, hind), lateral view, 98. Last abdominal segments, ventral view. Scale: 0.1 mm. Abbreviations. Head: 1 to 13 flagellomeres, fla bas: basal flagellomeres, fla dis: distal flagellomeres; 2nd seg: second palpal segment; 3rd seg: third palpal segment; sen pit: sensory pit; PR: palpal ratio; P/HR: proboscis/head ratio. Leg: cx= coxa; fe= femur; ti= tibia; tr= trochanter; tsm 1= first tarsomere; tsm 5= fifth tarsomere. Abdomen: arrows indicate the position of the spermathecae.