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C. distinctipennis (Austen 1912)

Culicoides distinctipennis Austen 1912: 101. TL Nigeria
(Austen 1912: 101. ♀, desription, figure, record Uganda)
(Carter, Ingram & Macfie 1920: 238. Notes, ♂ description, figs, Ghana)
(Nagaty & Morsy 1960: 29. Record, Egypt)

Diagnosis and Notes

The wing is dark greyish with prominent pale spots; it closely resembles that of leucostictus but lacks the additional pale spot just above vein m1 and beyond the second radial cell spot. The female AR is1.11-1.50; the SD is 3-15. There is a single peg-top-shaped spermatheca. The male genitalia as shown, the ninth sternite membrane spiculate.
The figure of the wing is from Khamala & Kettle (1971); that of the male genitalia and spermatheca from Boorman (1979).

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