Culicoides arubae Fox and Hoffman Culicoides arubae Fox and Hoffman, 1944: 109 (Aruba); Borkent and Spinelli 2007: 75 (in Neotropical catalog; distribution). Discussion. This primarily Neotropical species occurs in the USA in Texas, and Mexico south to Colombia and Venezuela, and, in the Caribbean on Aruba and Grenada (Borkent and Spinelli 2007). It was previously known in Mexico from Campeche, Guerrero and Tamaulipas (Wirth et al. 1988); we provide the first records from Veracruz and Yucatán, and additional records from Tamaulipas. New records. Tamaulipas, Tampico, Laguna del Carpintero, November 1945, M. Macías, 17 females, 2 males. Veracruz, Alto Lucero, Arroyo Agrío, 5 September 2008, Entomological brigade JS IV, Malaise trap, 1 male. Yucatán, Reserva Ría Lagartos, Malaise trap, 30 August 1995, Malaise trap, 1 female; same data except 8 July 1997, H. Huerta, S. P. Manrique & R. R Paz, light trap, 1 male; Tizimin, 31 August 1995, H. Huerta, S. P. Manrique & R. R Paz, Malaise trap, 15 females, 15 males; same data except near Zac Bo, 2 April 1997, S. Ibáñez-Bernal, M. C. L. Miranda, H. Huerta & S. P. Manrique, Malaise trap, 1 male. ; Published as part of Huerta, Rodríguez, Ana M., William L. Grogan, Jr. & Ibáñez-Bernal, Sergio, 2012, New records of biting midges of the genus Culicoides Latreille from Mexico (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), pp. 1-20 in Insecta Mundi 2012 (211) on page 16, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.5174160