C. algeriensis (Clastrier 1957)
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Culicoides algeriensis Clastrier 1957: 426. TL Algeria
(Clastrier 1957: 436. ♂, ♀, desc, figs)
(Kremer 1966: 178. ♂, ♀, notes, figs)
Diagnosis and Notes
The wings have a pale spot just beyond the second radial cell, and very faint pale spots at the ends of cells r5, m1, m2 and cu; cell an pale at the base. Kremer (1966) gives the female AR as 1.13; no data are available for the sensilla distribution. The male genitalia have the posterior margin of the ninth tergite with a central notch; the ventral roots of the basistyles foot-shaped, the ninth sternite membrane bare.
The figures are after Kremer (1966).
