Description of the Pupa of Culicoides crucifer Clastrier (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae).
The pupa of Culicoides crucifer Clastrier is described, illustrated and photomicrographed by using binocular microscope and phase-contrast microscopy from material collected in an artificial container in Manaus, Brazil. The pupa shows features typical of pupae occurring in calm and clean waters, and it is compared with its similar congeners of the subgenus Haematomyiidium, Culicoides annuliductus Wirth and Culicoides debilipalpis Lutz.
División Entomología, Museo de La Plata, CCT-CEPAVE-ILPLA, Paseo del Bosque s/n, 1900, La Plata, Argentina. ronderos@fcnym.unlp.edu.ar.|División Entomología, Museo de La Plata, CCT-CEPAVE, La Plata, Argentina. ronderos@fcnym.unlp.edu.ar.
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División Entomología, Museo de La Plata, CCT-CEPAVE-ILPLA, Paseo del Bosque s/n, 1900, La Plata, Argentina.
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Spinelli
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Coordenação de Biodiversidade (CBIO), Manaus, AM, Brasil.
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Keppler
D000818:Animals; D001938:Brazil; D002519:Ceratopogonidae / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D011679:Pupa
Amazonas; chaetotaxy; immature stage; taxonomy