C. faghihi (Navai 1971)

Taxonomy	Biology	Distribution

Culicoides faghihi Navai 1971: 199. TL Iran
(Navai 1971: 199. ♂, ♀, desc, figs)
Kremer, Rebholtz-Hirtzel & Bailly-Choumara 1975:209. Redescription, figs)

Diagnosis and Notes

The wings are greyish with a very small vague pale spot just beyond the second radial cell; the female AR is 0.85-1.11 and the SD is 3-10. There are two spermathecae with short necks; the third segment of the palp moderately swollen, with a single deep sensory pit. The male genitalia as shown; the ninth tergite narrowing posteriorly with two divergent, short, blunt processes, the parameres very long, simple, bent anteriorly in the middle. The aedeagus is stirrup-shaped, with thin arms. The ventral root of the basistyle slightly foot-shaped with a bare ninth sternite membrane in Navai’s figure, narrow and blunt in Kremer, Rebholtz-Hirtzel & Bailly-Choumara’s figure wth the ninth sternite membrane spiculate
The figures are from Kremer, Rebholtz- Hirtzel & Bailly-Choumara (1975).