Culicoides insignis and C. venezuelensis are documented for the first time from Salta province, C. guttatus from Salta and Tucumán provinces, and C. austroparaensis, C. biestroi, C. fernandoi, and C. foxi from Misiones province. The geographical distributions of C. lahillei, C. brasilianum, C. dureti and C. pseudoheliconiae are extended to Chaco and Misiones provinces.Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Muse

Dantur Juri, María J.

Lizarralde de Grosso, Mercedes S.

Oria, Griselda

Ramírez, Patricia

Spinelli, Gustavo Ricardo

Stein, Marina

Veggiani Aybar, Cecilia A.

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798 Florida Entomologist 95(3) September 2012NEW RECORDS OF BITING MIDGES OF THE GENUS CULICOIDES (DIPTERA: CERATOPOGONIDAE) FROM THE YUNGAS, PARANAENSE RAINFOREST AND CHACO ECOREGIONS OF ARGENTINACECILIA A. VEGGIANI AYBAR1,*, MARÍA J. DANTUR JURI1,2, MARINA STEIN3, GRISELDA ORIA3, PATRICIA RAMÍREZ3,  MERCEDES S. LIZARRALDE DE GROSSO1 AND GUSTAVO R. SPINELLI41Instituto Superior de Entomología “Dr. Abraham Willink”, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto Miguel Lillo, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Miguel Lillo 205, CP 4000 Tucumán, Argentina2IAMRA, Universidad Nacional de Chilecito, 9 de Julio Nº 22, CP F5360CKB, Chilecito, La Rioja, Argentina3Área Entomología, Instituto de Medicina Regional, Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, Avenida Las Heras 727, CP 3500, Resistencia, Chaco, Argentina4División de Entomología, Museo de La Plata, Paseo del Bosque s/nº, CP 1900, La Plata, Buenos Aires, ArgentinaCorresponding author; E-mail: ceciliaveggiani@gmail.comThe genus Culicoides includes 1,322 extant species distributed worldwide, with at least 266 species recorded from the Neotropical Region (Borkent 2012; Borkent & Spinelli 2007). In Ar-gentina, 51 species have been recorded 21 of which were from the northeastern region (Spinelli et al. 2005) and 10 species for the northwestern region of this country (Spinelli & Wirth 1993; Veggiani Aybar et al. 2010). The public health importance of Culicoides species includes painful discomfort and lesions caused by their bites, but also their role as vectors of diseases. Some species transmit ﬁlarial nema-todes, whereas others vector several economically important viral diseases such as Oropouche, blue-tongue, equine encephalitis, epizootic hemorrhagic disease, African horse sickness, Akabane and bo-vine ephemeral fever (Mellor et al. 2000; Ronderos et al. 2003).We provide new records of several species Cu-licoides from the northwestern and northeastern regions of Argentina, in Salta, Tucumán and Mis-iones provinces. Specimens were collected during the early stag-es of 2 research projects on bioecological aspects of Anopheles from Aguas Blancas, El Oculto and San Ramón de la Nueva Orán (Salta), Yánima (Tucumán), Pampa del Indio (Chaco) and Puerto Iguazú (Misiones). All specimens were collected with CDC light traps baited with carbon dioxide and operated from early dusk until the following morning (16:00 to 08:00 h). Specimens were preserved in 70% ethanol, sub-sequently dissected and slide-mounted in Canada balsam using the techniques described by Wirth & Marston (1968), and identiﬁed by comparing them with slide-mounted specimens, photographs of fe-male wings in the Neotropical Wing Atlas (Wirth et al. 1988) as well as descriptions and illustra-tions in other publications (i. e., Wirth & Blanton 1959; Spinelli et al. 2005).Voucher specimens were deposited in the en-tomological collections at Instituto-Fundación Miguel Lillo (IMLA) and Instituto de Medicina Regional (Universidad Nacional del Nordeste) and Museo de La Plata (MLPA).The following species are reported for the ﬁrst time for Salta, Tucumán and Misiones provinces: Culicoides (Culicoides) insignis Lutz: SALTA: Aguas Blancas (S 22° 43’ W 64° 22’), III-2003, X-2004, 3 females; San Ramón de la Nueva Orán (S 23° 08’ W 64° 20’), III-2004, VIII-2004, IX-2004, 15 females, 4 males, Yungas Ecoregion.Culicoides (C.) guttatus Coquillett: SALTA: San Ramón de la Nueva Orán (S 23° 08’ W 64° 20’), X-2004, 5 females, 1 male. TUCUMÁN: Yánima (S 27° 39’ W 65° 40’), XI-2010, 10 females, Yungas Ecoregion.Culicoides (C.) venezuelensis Ortiz & Mirsa: SALTA: Aguas Blancas (S 22° 43’ W 64° 22’), X-2004, 1 female; El Oculto (S 23° 06’ W 64° 30’), XII-2003, 1 female; San Ramón de la Nueva Orán (S 23° 08’ W 64° 20’), I-2003, VIII-2003, 3 females, 1 male; Yungas Ecoregion.Culicoides (C.) austroparaensis Spinelli: MIS-IONES: Puerto Iguazú (S 25° 40’ W 54° 33’), II-2010, 1 female, Paranaense Rainforest Ecoregion.Culicoides (C.) biestroi Spinelli and Ronderos: MISIONES: Puerto Iguazú (S 25° 37’ W 54° 35’), XII-2009, I-2010, 5 females; Paranaense Rainfor-est Ecoregion.Culicoides (C.) fernandoi Tavares & Souza: MISIONES: Puerto Iguazú (S 25° 40’ W 54° 33’), II-2010, 2 females, Paranaense Rainforest Ecoregion.Culicoides (C.) foxi Ortiz: MISIONES: Puerto Iguazú (S 25° 40’ W 54° 33’), XII-2009, II-2010, 17 females, 3 males, Paranaense Rainforest Ecore-gion.The following species are recorded for the ﬁrst time from other localities in Chaco and Misiones provinces, thus extending their geographical dis-tribution.Downloaded From: https://bioone.org/journals/Florida-Entomologist on 09 Oct 2019Terms of Use: https://bioone.org/terms-of-use Scientiﬁc Notes 799Culicoides (C.) lahillei Iches: CHACO: Pampa del Indio (S 26° 08’ W 59º 58’), X-2009, I-2010, III-2010, 5 females, Chaco Ecoregion. Culicoides (C.) brasilianum Forattini: MISIO-NES: Puerto Iguazú (S 25° 40’ W 54° 33’), II-2010, 1 female, Paranaense Rainforest Ecoregion.Culicoides (C.) dureti Ronderos & Spinelli: MIS-IONES: Puerto Iguazú (S 25° 40’S W 54° 33’), II-2010, 1 female, Paranaense Rainforest Ecoregion. Culicoides (Hoffmania) pseudoheliconiae Fe-lippe-Bauer: MISIONES: Puerto Iguazú (S 25° 40’ W 54° 33’), II-2010, 2 females, Paranaense Rain-forest Ecoregion.Of the recorded species, C. insignis, C. la-hillei and C. venezuelensis are the only species recognized as important vectors of human and veterinary diseases. Reports of C. insignis as a vector of the bluetongue in northeastern Argen-tina have been cited in the literature (Gorch et al. 2002; Ronderos et al. 2003). Perruolo (2009) reported that C. venezuelensis was also attracted to cattle; and, therefore, it may be considered a potential vector of diseases transmitted to these ruminants. Culicoides insignis and C. venezuelen-sis were previously recorded in the Salto Grande area between Argentina and Uruguay (Spinelli & Ronderos 1991), in the Yacyretá area between Ar-gentina and Paraguay (Ronderos et al. 2003), and recently in Tucumán province in northwestern Argentina (Veggiani Aybar et al. 2010). Finally, C. lahillei is considered the primary vector of ﬁla-riasis caused by Mansonella ozzardi (Shelley & Coscaron 2001). This disease is endemic to the Yungas or Subtropical Mountainous Rainforest (Biglieri & Araoz 1915; Mühlens et al. 1925; Ro-maña & Wygodzinsky 1950; Taranto & Castelli 1988; Shelley & Coscaron 2001). SUMMARYCulicoides insignis and C. venezuelensis are documented for the ﬁrst time from Salta province, C. guttatus from Salta and Tucumán provinces, and C. austroparaensis, C. biestroi, C. fernandoi, and C. foxi from Misiones province. The geograph-ical distributions of C. lahillei, C. brasilianum, C. dureti and C. pseudoheliconiae are extended to Chaco and Misiones provinces.ACKNOWLEDGMENTSWe thank the Chief and Technicians of Coordinación Nacional de Control de Vectores, Ministerio de Salud de la Nación, for their invaluable collaboration during ﬁeld work.REFERENCES CITEDBIGLIERI, R., AND ARÁOZ, J. M. 1915. Casos de Microﬁlaria observados por primera vez en Tucumán. Dpto Nac. Hig., Direc. Reg. Defensa Antipalúdica. 2: 1-22.BORKENT, A. 2012. World species of Biting Midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) http://inhs.illinois.edu/research/FLYTREE/CeratopognidaeCatalog.pdf (ac-cessed online Feb 2012). BORKENT, A., AND SPINELLI, G. R. 2007. Neotropical Cera-topogonidae (Diptera: Insecta), pp. 1-198 In J. Adis, J. R. Arias, G. Rueda-Delgado and K. M. Wnatzen, [eds.], Aquatic biodiversity in Latin America. Pensoft, Soﬁa, Moscow. GORCH, C., VAGNOTII, A., DUFFY, S., MIQUET, J., PACHECO, I., BOLONDI, A., DRAGHI, C. I., CETRA, B., SONI, C., RONDEROS, M., RUSSO, S., RAMIREZ, V., AND LAGER, L. 2002. Blue-tongue: isolation and characterization of the virus and identiﬁcation of vectors in Northeastern Argentina. Rev. Argent. Microbiol. 34: 150-6MELLOR, P. S., BOORMAN, J., AND BAYLIS, M. 2000. Culicoides biting midges: their role as arbovirus vectors. Annu. Rev. Entomol. 45: 307-340.MÜHLENS, P., DIOS, R. L., PETROCCHI, S., AND ZUCCARINI, J. A. 1925. Las Filariosis Argentinas. La microﬁlaria hu-mana. Rev. Inst. Bact. Dpto. Nac. Hig. 4: 324-336.PERRUOLO, G. J. 2009. Clave de las especies de Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) asociadas con la ganadería en la región Neotropical. Rev. Cient. 19: 124-133.REMONDEGUI, C., ZAFOROV, G., RIPIO, C., ARCE DE HAMITY, M., NEDER DE ROMAN, L., AND ESQUIVEL, O. 1988. Manson-ella ozzardi: Estudio Clínico Epidemiológico de un foco endémico en la provincia de Jujuy. Act. Infectología 4: 3-13.ROMAÑA, C., AND WYGODZINSKY, P. 1950. Acerca de la Trans-misión de Mansonella ozzardi (Manson). An. Inst. Med. Reg. 3: 29-34.RONDEROS, M. M., SPINELLI, G. R., LAGER, I., AND DÍAZ, F. 2003. La importancia sanitaria de los jejenes del géne-ro Culicoides (Diptera: Nematocera) en la Argentina. Entomol. Vect. 10: 601-612.SHELLEY, A. J, AND COSCARON, S. 2001. Simuliid blackﬂies (Diptera: Simuliidae) and ceratopogonid midges (Dip-tera: Ceratopogonidae) as vectors of Mansonella ozzar-di (Nematoda: Onchocercidae) in northern Argentina. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 96: 451-458.SPINELLI, G. R., AND RONDEROS, M. M. 1991. Los polvor-ines del género Culicoides en áreas de inﬂuencia de la represa de Salto Grande (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Neotrópica 37: 83-94.SPINELLI, G. R., RONDEROS, M. M., AND DIAZ, F. 2005. The bloodsucking biting midges of Argentina (Diptera: Cer-atopogonidae). Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 100: 137-150.TARANTO, N. J., AND CASTELLI, E. 1988. Detección de un foco de microﬁlariasis en el noroeste argentino. Rev. Ar-gent. Microbiol. 20: 49-51.VEGGIANI AYBAR, C. A., DANTUR JURI, M. J., LIZARRALDE DE GROSSO, M. S., AND SPINELLI, G. R. 2010. Species diver-sity and seasonal adundance of Culicoides biting midg-es in northwestern Argentina. Med. Vet. Entomol. 24: 95-98. WIRTH, W. W., AND BLANTON, F. S. 1959. Biting midges of the genus Culicoides from Panamá (Diptera: Cerato-pogonidae). Proc. US. Natl. Mus. 109: 237-482.WIRTH, W. W., AND MARSTON, N. 1968. A method for mount-ing small insects on microscope slides in Canada bal-sam. Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 61:783-784. WIRTH, W. W., DYCE, A. L., AND SPINELLI, G. R. 1988. An Atlas of wing photographs, with a summary of the nu-merical characters of the Neotropical species of Cu-licoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Contrib. Amer. Entomol. Inst. 25: 1-72.Downloaded From: https://bioone.org/journals/Florida-Entomologist on 09 Oct 2019Terms of Use: https://bioone.org/terms-of-use

New Records of Biting Midges of the Genus Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from the Yungas, Paranaense Rainforest and Chaco Ecoregions of Argentina

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798 Florida Entomologist 95(3) September 2012
NEW RECORDS OF BITING MIDGES OF THE GENUS CULICOIDES 
(DIPTERA: CERATOPOGONIDAE) FROM THE YUNGAS, PARANAENSE 
RAINFOREST AND CHACO ECOREGIONS OF ARGENTINA
CECILIA A. VEGGIANI AYBAR1,*, MARÍA J. DANTUR JURI1,2, MARINA STEIN3, GRISELDA ORIA3, PATRICIA RAMÍREZ3, 
 MERCEDES S. LIZARRALDE DE GROSSO1 AND GUSTAVO R. SPINELLI4
1Instituto Superior de Entomología “Dr. Abraham Willink”, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto Miguel 
Lillo, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Miguel Lillo 205, CP 4000 Tucumán, Argentina
2IAMRA, Universidad Nacional de Chilecito, 9 de Julio Nº 22, CP F5360CKB, Chilecito, La Rioja, Argentina
3Área Entomología, Instituto de Medicina Regional, Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, Avenida Las Heras 727, 
CP 3500, Resistencia, Chaco, Argentina
4División de Entomología, Museo de La Plata, Paseo del Bosque s/nº, CP 1900, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Corresponding author; E-mail: ceciliaveggiani@gmail.com
The genus Culicoides includes 1,322 extant 
species distributed worldwide, with at least 266 
species recorded from the Neotropical Region 
(Borkent 2012; Borkent & Spinelli 2007). In Ar-
gentina, 51 species have been recorded 21 of which 
were from the northeastern region (Spinelli et al. 
2005) and 10 species for the northwestern region 
of this country (Spinelli & Wirth 1993; Veggiani 
Aybar et al. 2010). 
The public health importance of Culicoides 
species includes painful discomfort and lesions 
caused by their bites, but also their role as vectors 
of diseases. Some species transmit filarial nema-
todes, whereas others vector several economically 
important viral diseases such as Oropouche, blue-
tongue, equine encephalitis, epizootic hemorrhagic 
disease, African horse sickness, Akabane and bo-
vine ephemeral fever (Mellor et al. 2000; Ronderos 
et al. 2003).
We provide new records of several species Cu-
licoides from the northwestern and northeastern 
regions of Argentina, in Salta, Tucumán and Mis-
iones provinces. 
Specimens were collected during the early stag-
es of 2 research projects on bioecological aspects 
of Anopheles from Aguas Blancas, El Oculto and 
San Ramón de la Nueva Orán (Salta), Yánima 
(Tucumán), Pampa del Indio (Chaco) and Puerto 
Iguazú (Misiones). All specimens were collected 
with CDC light traps baited with carbon dioxide 
and operated from early dusk until the following 
morning (16:00 to 08:00 h). 
Specimens were preserved in 70% ethanol, sub-
sequently dissected and slide-mounted in Canada 
balsam using the techniques described by Wirth & 
Marston (1968), and identified by comparing them 
with slide-mounted specimens, photographs of fe-
male wings in the Neotropical Wing Atlas (Wirth 
et al. 1988) as well as descriptions and illustra-
tions in other publications (i. e., Wirth & Blanton 
1959; Spinelli et al. 2005).
Voucher specimens were deposited in the en-
tomological collections at Instituto-Fundación 
Miguel Lillo (IMLA) and Instituto de Medicina 
Regional (Universidad Nacional del Nordeste) and 
Museo de La Plata (MLPA).
The following species are reported for the first 
time for Salta, Tucumán and Misiones provinces: 
Culicoides (Culicoides) insignis Lutz: SALTA: 
Aguas Blancas (S 22° 43’ W 64° 22’), III-2003, 
X-2004, 3 females; San Ramón de la Nueva Orán 
(S 23° 08’ W 64° 20’), III-2004, VIII-2004, IX-2004, 
15 females, 4 males, Yungas Ecoregion.
Culicoides (C.) guttatus Coquillett: SALTA: San 
Ramón de la Nueva Orán (S 23° 08’ W 64° 20’), 
X-2004, 5 females, 1 male. TUCUMÁN: Yánima 
(S 27° 39’ W 65° 40’), XI-2010, 10 females, Yungas 
Ecoregion.
Culicoides (C.) venezuelensis Ortiz & Mirsa: 
SALTA: Aguas Blancas (S 22° 43’ W 64° 22’), 
X-2004, 1 female; El Oculto (S 23° 06’ W 64° 30’), 
XII-2003, 1 female; San Ramón de la Nueva Orán 
(S 23° 08’ W 64° 20’), I-2003, VIII-2003, 3 females, 
1 male; Yungas Ecoregion.
Culicoides (C.) austroparaensis Spinelli: MIS-
IONES: Puerto Iguazú (S 25° 40’ W 54° 33’), II-
2010, 1 female, Paranaense Rainforest Ecoregion.
Culicoides (C.) biestroi Spinelli and Ronderos: 
MISIONES: Puerto Iguazú (S 25° 37’ W 54° 35’), 
XII-2009, I-2010, 5 females; Paranaense Rainfor-
est Ecoregion.
Culicoides (C.) fernandoi Tavares & Souza: 
MISIONES: Puerto Iguazú (S 25° 40’ W 54° 33’), II-
2010, 2 females, Paranaense Rainforest Ecoregion.
Culicoides (C.) foxi Ortiz: MISIONES: Puerto 
Iguazú (S 25° 40’ W 54° 33’), XII-2009, II-2010, 17 
females, 3 males, Paranaense Rainforest Ecore-
gion.
The following species are recorded for the first 
time from other localities in Chaco and Misiones 
provinces, thus extending their geographical dis-
tribution.
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Culicoides (C.) lahillei Iches: CHACO: Pampa 
del Indio (S 26° 08’ W 59º 58’), X-2009, I-2010, III-
2010, 5 females, Chaco Ecoregion. 
Culicoides (C.) brasilianum Forattini: MISIO-
NES: Puerto Iguazú (S 25° 40’ W 54° 33’), II-2010, 
1 female, Paranaense Rainforest Ecoregion.
Culicoides (C.) dureti Ronderos & Spinelli: MIS-
IONES: Puerto Iguazú (S 25° 40’S W 54° 33’), II-
2010, 1 female, Paranaense Rainforest Ecoregion. 
Culicoides (Hoffmania) pseudoheliconiae Fe-
lippe-Bauer: MISIONES: Puerto Iguazú (S 25° 40’ 
W 54° 33’), II-2010, 2 females, Paranaense Rain-
forest Ecoregion.
Of the recorded species, C. insignis, C. la-
hillei and C. venezuelensis are the only species 
recognized as important vectors of human and 
veterinary diseases. Reports of C. insignis as a 
vector of the bluetongue in northeastern Argen-
tina have been cited in the literature (Gorch et 
al. 2002; Ronderos et al. 2003). Perruolo (2009) 
reported that C. venezuelensis was also attracted 
to cattle; and, therefore, it may be considered a 
potential vector of diseases transmitted to these 
ruminants. Culicoides insignis and C. venezuelen-
sis were previously recorded in the Salto Grande 
area between Argentina and Uruguay (Spinelli & 
Ronderos 1991), in the Yacyretá area between Ar-
gentina and Paraguay (Ronderos et al. 2003), and 
recently in Tucumán province in northwestern 
Argentina (Veggiani Aybar et al. 2010). Finally, 
C. lahillei is considered the primary vector of fila-
riasis caused by Mansonella ozzardi (Shelley & 
Coscaron 2001). This disease is endemic to the 
Yungas or Subtropical Mountainous Rainforest 
(Biglieri & Araoz 1915; Mühlens et al. 1925; Ro-
maña & Wygodzinsky 1950; Taranto & Castelli 
1988; Shelley & Coscaron 2001).
 SUMMARY
Culicoides insignis and C. venezuelensis are 
documented for the first time from Salta province, 
C. guttatus from Salta and Tucumán provinces, 
and C. austroparaensis, C. biestroi, C. fernandoi, 
and C. foxi from Misiones province. The geograph-
ical distributions of C. lahillei, C. brasilianum, C. 
dureti and C. pseudoheliconiae are extended to 
Chaco and Misiones provinces.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We thank the Chief and Technicians of Coordinación 
Nacional de Control de Vectores, Ministerio de Salud 
de la Nación, for their invaluable collaboration during 
field work.
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Atlas of wing photographs, with a summary of the nu-
merical characters of the Neotropical species of Cu-
licoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Contrib. Amer. 
Entomol. Inst. 25: 1-72.
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