New species records of Culicoides biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) for the state of Rondonia in Brazilian Amazon Author Carvalho, Luis Paulo Costa Author Farias, Emanuelle de Sousa Author Gil, Luiz Herman Soares Author Pessoa, Felipe Arley Costa Author Medeiros, Jansen Fernandes text Biodiversity Data Journal 2017 5 13075 13075 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.5.e13075 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.5.e13075 1314-2828-5-13075 Culicoides (Hoffmania) heliconiae Fox & Hoffman, 1944 Culicoides (Hoffmania) heliconiae Synonyms: C. rozeboomi Barbosa, 1947 Materials Type status: Other material . Occurrence: recordedBy: J.F. Medeiros ; individualCount: 1 ; sex: male ; lifeStage: adult ; Location: country: Brazil ; stateProvince: Rondonia ; municipality: Cacoal; verbatimCoordinates: 11°25'53"S ; 61°26'52"W ; Event: samplingProtocol: HP light traps ; eventDate: 2014-11-12 /21; habitat: fragmented forest Type status: Other material . Occurrence: recordedBy: L.P.C. Carvalho ; individualCount: 1 ; sex: female ; lifeStage: adult ; Location: country: Brazil ; stateProvince: Rondonia ; municipality: Buritis; verbatimCoordinates: 10°12'47"S ; 63°53'46"W ; Event: samplingProtocol: HP light traps ; eventDate: 2015-05-26 ; habitat: forest Diagnosis Third palpal segment with scattered sensilla; apical pale band on mid femur, hind femur dark to tip; wing with distal pale spot in r3 which is narrow and transverse, r3 with pale spot present anterior to base of M1, a single pale spot crosses the second radial cell, apices of CuA1 and CuA2 pale; spermathecae with short, slender necks ( Felippe-Bauer et al. 2009 ). Distribution Belize to Venezuela, Ecuador, Brazil (Acre, Amazonas, Para and now in Rondonia ), Grenada and Trinidad and Tobago ( Borkent and Spinelli 2007 , Farias et al. 2016a , Fox and Hoffman 1944 and Santarem and Felippe-Bauer 2017 ). Notes This species was here recorded for the first time in Rondonia State.