C. corsicus (Kremer, Leberre & Beaucornu-Saguez 1971)
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Culicoides corsicus
Kremer et al 1971: 655. TL France
(Kremer, Hommel & Bailly-Choumara 1971: 655. ♂, ♀, desc,
figs)
(Chaker 1981: 88. ♂, ♀, notes, figs. Tunisia)
Diagnosis and Notes
A small species; the wings greyish
and almost devoid of markings, save for a small pale spot just beyond the
dark second radial cell. The female AR is 1.47-1.60; the SD 3-10. Two
spermathecae, with a mushroom-shaped ring on the duct. The male genitalia as
shown; the parameres with five or six long barbs and the arms of the aedeagus
with two posterior-pointing projections, very similar to ravus. The ventral
root of the basistyle foot-shaped, the ninth sternite membrane with a very
few spicules only..
The figures are by Delecolle, from Chaker (1981).
