title: Description of Culicoides paradoxalis sp. nov. from France and Portugal (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae).
abstract: A new species, Culicoides paradoxalis Ramilo and Delécolle (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), is described from specimens collected in France (Corsica and southeast region) and Portugal. This species resembles Culicoides lupicaris Downes and Kettle, and can be distinguished from this species and from Culicoides newsteadi Austen by its wing pattern, in addition to the absence of spines on the tarsomere 4 of female mid leg. In male, the presence of two appendices on the sternite 9 together with the absence of sensilla coeloconica on the flagellomere 11 is also useful to distinguish these three species. Separation from other members of the Culicoides subgenus is confirmed by the analysis of the Cytochrome Oxidase I (COI) mitochondrial marker.
authors.affiliation: CIISA, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária, Universidade de Lisboa (FMV-ULisboa), Av. da Universidade Técnica, 1300-477 Lisboa, Portugal.; Email: dwrramilo@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ramilo
authors.affiliation: Cirad, UMR15 CMAEE, INRA, UMR1309 CMAEE, 34398 Montpellier, France; Email: unknown.
authors.forename: Claire
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Garros
authors.affiliation: Institut de Parasitologie et de Pathologie Tropicale de Strasbourg (IPPTS) EA7292, 3 rue Koeberlé, F-67000 Strasbourg, France; Email: unknown.
authors.forename: Bruno
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Mathieu
authors.affiliation: Cirad, UMR15 CMAEE, INRA, UMR1309 CMAEE, 34398 Montpellier, France; Email: unknown.
authors.forename: Christophe
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Benedet
authors.affiliation: Cirad, UMR15 CMAEE, INRA, UMR1309 CMAEE, 34398 Montpellier, France; Email: unknown.
authors.forename: Xavier
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Allène
authors.affiliation: CIISA, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária, Universidade de Lisboa (FMV-ULisboa), Av. da Universidade Técnica, 1300-477 Lisboa, Portugal.; Email: unknown.
authors.forename: Elisabete
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Silva
authors.affiliation: CIISA, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária, Universidade de Lisboa (FMV-ULisboa), Av. da Universidade Técnica, 1300-477 Lisboa, Portugal.; Email: unknown.
authors.forename: Graça
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Alexandre-Pires
authors.affiliation: CIISA, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária, Universidade de Lisboa (FMV-ULisboa), Av. da Universidade Técnica, 1300-477 Lisboa, Portugal.; Email: unknown.
authors.forename: Isabel Pereira Da
authors.initials: IP
authors.lastname: Fonseca
authors.affiliation: Vector-borne Viral Diseases Programme, The Pirbright Institute, Ash Road, Pirbright, Woking, Surrey, GU24 0BN, UK; Email: unknown.
authors.forename: Simon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Carpenter
authors.affiliation: 5Faculty of Sciences, Charles University, Viničná 7, 12844 Prague, Czech Republic; Email: unknown.
authors.forename: Jana
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rádrová
authors.affiliation: Institut de Parasitologie et de Pathologie Tropicale de Strasbourg (IPPTS) EA7292, 3 rue Koeberlé, F-67000 Strasbourg, France; Email: unknown.
authors.forename: Jean-Claude
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Delécolle
mesh_terms: D063147:Animal Distribution; D000825:Animal Structures / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D000818:Animals; D002519:Ceratopogonidae / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics; D017753:Ecosystem; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D011174:Portugal