title: Culicoides castelloni sp. nov. from the Brazilian Amazon Region with a revision of the reticulatus species group (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae).
abstract: A new species of the reticulatus species group, C. castelloni Santarém and Felippe-Bauer, is described and illustrated based on female specimens from the state of Amazonas, Brazil. A systematic key, wing photographs and table with numerical characters of females and a synopsis of 24 species of the Culicoides reticulatus group are presented. This paper presents further new records for seven species of the reticulatus group.
authors.affiliation: Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
authors.forename: Maria Clara A
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Santarém
authors.affiliation: Instituto Leônidas e Maria Deane, Fiocruz, Manaus, AM, Brasil.
authors.forename: Emanuelle S
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Farias
authors.affiliation: Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
authors.forename: Maria Luiza
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Felippe-Bauer
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001938:Brazil; D002519:Ceratopogonidae / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000145:classification*; D005260:Female; D013045:Species Specificity