Abstract
A checklist of the subgenus Culicoides (Avaritia Fox) (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae: Culicoides) in China, currently including 57 species, is provided. Their full citations, more detailed locations of the type locality, and distribution of each species by province, and/or state of each species are also provided. Culicoides (Avaritia) fenggangensis Liu & Hou, sp. n. is described and illustrated, based on both male and female specimens from China. The new species is compared with its similar congeners, C. (A.) comparis Liu & Yu, 2005 and C. (A.) dentiformis McDonald & Lu, 1972.
Highlights
Biting midges of the genus Culicoides Latreille (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae) are found everywhere in the world and females are the smallest of insect vectors (Mellor et al 2000)
Morphological terms are from the chapter on Ceratopogonidae by Yu et al (2005)
Terms of structures specific to Culicoides follow those described by Santarém et al (2014) and Han et al (2017)
Summary
Biting midges of the genus Culicoides Latreille (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae) are found everywhere in the world and females are the smallest of insect vectors (Mellor et al 2000). In China, Bluetongue has been recorded from several provinces in south, such as Yunnan, Hubei, Anhui, Sichuan, Shanxi and so on (Zhang et al 2015), and the vector Culicoides of BTV mainly distributed in the south region of north latitude 40° (Zhang et al 2014). Members of this genus have great international significance and have attracted more scientific attention in recent years. The purpose of this paper is to provide a checklist of this subgenus in China, and describe and illustrate Culicoides (A.) fenggangensis sp. The purpose of this paper is to provide a checklist of this subgenus in China, and describe and illustrate Culicoides (A.) fenggangensis sp. n
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