Carvalho Luis Paulo Costa, Farias Emanuelle de Sousa, Gil Luiz Herman Soares, Pessoa Felipe Arley Costa, Medeiros Jansen Fernandes
Programa de Pós-graduação em Biologia Experimental, Universidade Federal de Rondônia, Porto Velho, Brazil.
Laboratório de Entomologia, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz Rondônia, Porto Velho, Brazil.
Biodivers Data J. 2017 May 9(5):e13075. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.5.e13075. eCollection 2017.
biting midges are small insects that are proven vectors of pathogens that cause disease in animals and humans. There are 1,368 species of in the world, including 149 species in Brazil and 122 species in the Brazilian Amazon Basin. This study documents specimens that were collected between 2013 and 2015 in the municipalities of Alvorada d'Oeste, Buritis, Cacoal, Costa Marques, Espigão d'Oeste, Guajará-Mirim, Pimenta Bueno, Porto Velho and São Francisco Guaporé. Collections were performed using HP light traps in forest, pasture and peridomicilie environments.
Species newly recorded in Rondônia State include Wirth & Blanton, 1953; Macfie, 1940; Macfie, 1948; Wirth & Blanton, 1953; Fox & Hoffman, 1944; and Forattini, 1957. This is the first record in Brazil of Wirth & Blanton, 1971.
蠓是小型昆虫,已被证实是导致动物和人类疾病的病原体的传播媒介。世界上有1368种蠓,其中巴西有149种,巴西亚马逊流域有122种。本研究记录了2013年至2015年期间在西阿尔沃拉达、布里蒂斯、卡科尔、科斯塔马克斯、西埃斯皮冈、瓜贾拉-米林、皮门塔布埃诺、波多韦柳和圣弗朗西斯科瓜波雷等市采集的标本。采集工作是在森林、牧场和住宅周围环境中使用惠普诱虫灯进行的。
朗多尼亚州新记录的物种包括1953年的维思和布兰顿蠓;1940年的麦克菲蠓;1948年的麦克菲蠓;1953年的维思和布兰顿蠓;1944年的福克斯和霍夫曼蠓;以及1957年的福拉蒂尼蠓。这是1971年维思和布兰顿蠓在巴西的首次记录。