C. comosioculatus (Tokunaga 1956)

Taxonomy	Biology	Distribution

Culicoides comosioculatus Tokunaga 1956: 121. TL Japan
(Tokunaga 1956: 121. ♀, description, figs)
(Remm 1981: 29. Synonymy)
(Glukhova 1989: 330. ♂, ♀, notes, figs)
    = chaetophthalmus Amosova
Culicoides chaetophthalmus Amosova 1957: 237. Russia
Amosova 1957: 237. ♀, desc, figs)
(Gutsevich 1960: 105. ♂, ♀, notes, figs)
(Kremer 1966: 111. ♀, notes, figs)
(Callot, Kremer & Paclt 1968: 87. Record, ♂ desc, figs)
(Orszagh 1971: 88. Record, note, f igs, Czechoslovakia)
(Delecolle 1985: 120. ♂, ♀, notes, figs)
    = caucasicus Sergejev
Culicoides chaetophthalmus ssp. caucasicus Sergejev 1959: 203. Russia
    = setosus Gutsevich
Culicoides setosus Gutsevich 1960: 106. Ukraine
(Gutsevich 1960: 106.  ♀, desc, figs)
(Callot, Kremer & Paradis 1962:774. Record, France, notes)
(Kremer 1966: 110. ♀, notes, fig)
(Albu & Damian-Georgescu 1968: 335. ♀, figs, Rumania)
(Damian- Georgescu 1972: 15. Notes, Rumania)

Diagnosis and Notes

The wings are unmarked; but differs from most others with unmarked wings in that the eyes are hairy. The female AR is 1.0-1.2; the SD is 3, 10-15.  The male genitalia with the ninth tergite with a deep central notch, the ninth sternite membrane bare.
The female wing is not illustrated; the figure of the male genitalia is from Glukhova (1989).