C. denisoni (Boorman 1988)
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Culicoides denisoni
Boorman 1988: 152. TL Greece
(Boorman 1988: 152. ♂, ♀, description, figs)
Diagnosis and Notes
The wings are without markings; the
female AR is 0.91-0.94, the SD 3, 7-10' There are three spherical
spermathecae with long necks; the third palp segment is moderately swollen
with a single shallow sensory pit at the end of the segment. The male
genitalia as shown, the ninth tergite with long lateral processes, the
parameres long and of characteristic shape, the ninth sternite membrane bare
and the ventral roots of the basistyles very large.
The figure of the male genitalia is from Boorman (1988).
