Annotated Catalog of the Ceratopogonid Specimens (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) Deposited in the Natural History Museum of the National Science Museum Thailand

Abstract

A checklist of the ceratopogonid specimens housed in the Natural History Museum of the National Science
Museum, Thailand (THNHM) is presented for research and scientific communication. A total of 504 specimens,
in 94 species of Ceratopogonidae, including 63 partypes of 19 species in nine genera are housed in THNHM.
With 52 species (23 type and 194 non-type specimens), Culicoides Latreille, 1809 has the largest representation. The
specimens were collected mainly in Thailand and neighboring countries from 1959 to 1979.