C. actoni (Smith 1929)

Taxonomy	Biology	Distribution

Culicoides actoni Smith 1929: 255 (1932: 180). TL India
(Smith 1932: 180. ♀, desc, fig)
(Wirth & Hubert 1989: 248. Description, figs, notes)
    = okumensis Arnaud
Culicoides okumensis Arnaud 1956: 119. TL Japan
(Gutsevich 1960: 77. ♂, ♀, notes, figs)
(Kitaoka 1973: 219. ♂, desc, figs)
(Mirzaeva 1984: 369. Note, figs, key to Avaritia)

Diagnosis and Notes

A small species, the eyes hairy. Wings strongly marked, the pale and dark markings well-defined. SD 3, 12-15; AR 1.14-1.29. Two spermathecae. Third segment of the palp moderately swollen, PR 2.5, with a single sensory pit near the apex. Male genitalia with the ninth sternite deeply curved, the membrane bare. Ninth tergite with the posterior margin with angular lateral lobes. The figure of wing is from Wirth & Hubert (1989) and of the male genitalia from Kitaoka (1973) (okumensis). It differs from other Palaearctic Avaritia in having hairy eyes; in this respect it is very like the Afrotropical C. grahamii.