C. erairai (Kono & Takahashi 1940)
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Culicoides erairai
Kono & Takahashi 1940: 70. TL Japan
(Kono & Takahashi 1940: 70. ♀, desc, figs)
(Gutsevich 1960: 90. ♂, ♀, notes, figs)
(Glukhova 1989: 288. ♂, ♀, notes, figs)
Diagnosis and Notes
The wings are greyish with pale
spots as in the figure; the second radial cell dark and the marginal spots in
r5, m1 and m2 reaching the wing margin. The female AR is 0.94-0.98; the SD 3,
7-10. There are two spermathecae with short necks. The male genitalia are
typical of the similis group; the ventral roots of the basistyles
foot-shaped, the parameres long with four or five barbs, the ninth sternite
membrane bare.
The figures are from Glukhova (1989).
