Two new species and new records of Neotropical Culicoides Latreille (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) Author Spinelli, Gustavo R. 0000-0002-5046-7106 ILPLA-CONICET, UNLP-División Entomología, Museo de La Plata, Boulevard 120 s / n e / 61 y 62 La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. spinelli @ fcnym. unlp. edu. ar; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5046 - 7106 spinelli@fcnym.unlp.edu.ar Author Ronderos, Maria M. 0000-0001-8322-1471 CEPAVE-CONICET, UNLP-División Entomología, Museo de La Plata, Boulevard 120 s / n e / 61 y 62 La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. ronderos @ fcnym. unlp. edu. ar; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 8322 - 1471 ronderos@fcnym.unlp.edu.ar Author Díaz, Florentina 0000-0002-5991-6756 CEPAVE-CONICET, UNLP-División Entomología, Museo de La Plata, Boulevard 120 s / n e / 61 y 62 La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. ronderos @ fcnym. unlp. edu. ar; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 8322 - 1471 & florentina. diaz @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5991 - 6756 florentina.diaz@gmail.com text Zootaxa 2021 2021-01-22 4915 3 401 410 journal article 8518 10.11646/zootaxa.4915.3.8 fda28adc-c9ac-435c-8a75-bc9a452d1336 1175-5326 4456605 5AED0410-7C92-4A3F-8EA5-AC6C19BB5AE3 Culicoides crucifer Clastrier ( Figs. 13–18 ) Culicoides crucifer Clastrier, 1968: 85 (male, female; French Guiana); Wirth 1974: 29 (in catalog species south of USA ); Aitken et al . 1975: 118 ( Trinidad records); Vitale et al . 1981: 147 (in key of the C . debilipalpis group); Wirth et al . 1988: 46 (in wing atlas of species south of USA ); Borkent & Wirth 1997: 66 (in World catalog); Borkent & Spinelli 2000: 31 (in catalog species south of USA ); Trindade & Gorayeb 2005: 67 ( Brazil , Para records); Borkent & Spinelli 2007: 66 (in Neotropical catalog); Silva et al . 2010: 71 ( Brazil , Pará records); Ronderos et al . 2013: 49 (pupa, Amazonas records); Borkent & Dominiak 2020: 112 (in World catalog). Diagnosis . The only Neotropical species of the subgenus C . ( Haematomyidium ) with the following combination of characters: females with flagellomeres 4–12 subequal in length; sensilla coeloconica on flagellomeres 1, 6–8; palpal segment 3 slender with broad shallow pit; poststigmatic pale spots in r 3 separated; cell m 1 with two pale spots, distal one well separated from wing margin; cell m 2 with pale spot posterior to medial fork and no trace of pale spot anterior to cubital fork; macrotrichia present on distal half of cells r 3 , m 1 and m 2 , only few at extreme distal margin in cua 1 and anal cell, extending in one row to base of m 2 . Male unknown. Specimen examined . “ Argentina , Misiones , Posadas , Club San Francisco , 27°23’31.20”S , 55°55’59.37”W , 4-IX-2008 , H. Walantus , CDC light trap ” ( MLPA ) . Main numerical characters of the specimen examined: AR: 0.66; PR : 3.34; P/H ratio 1.00; wing length: 0.90 mm ; width: 0.42 mm ; CR: 0.55; larger spermatheca: 62 by 42 μm, neck 12 μm; smaller spermatheca: 55 by 35 μm, neck10 μm. Distribution . Trinidad , Guyana , French Guiana and Brazilian Amazonia (Amazonas, Pará), Argentina ( Misiones ). Remarks . The examined specimen perfectly agrees with the original description.