C. fagineus (Edwards 1939)

Taxonomy	Biology	Distribution

Culicoides fagineus Edwards 1939: 147. TL Great Britain
(Clastrier 1957: 421. ♂, ♀, notes, figs)
(Campbell & Pelham-Clinton 1960: 268. ♂, ♀, notes, keys, figs)
(Gutsevich 1960: 74. ♂, ♀, notes, figs)
(Coluzzi & Kremer 1964: 66. Notes, record, Italy)
(Callot, Kremer & Coluzzi 1965: 162. Notes, Italy
(Kremer 1966: 212. ♂, ♀, notes, figs)
(Glukhova 1969: 462. Larva, desc, figs)
(Glukhova 1979: 193. Larva)
(Delecolle 1985: 40. ♂, ♀, notes, figs)
(Boorman 1986: 256. Notes)
(Glukhova 1989: 173. ♂, ♀, notes, figs)

Diagnosis and Notes

This species closely resembles impunctatus, but the hind margin of the ninth tergite of the male is markedly convex and has a notch in the middle (it is straight or slightly concave in impunctatus) and the female has a  few cibarial teeth which are absent in impunctatus. This latter character is more conveniently applied than the ratio of antennal length to wing length as stated by Campbell & Pelham-Clinton (1960). The wing pattern resembles that of impunctatus, but is more clearly defind than in that species.The female AR is 1.13-1.21, and the SD 3,11-15. It could be also be confused with C. obsoletus, but in that species the third segment of the female palp bears a single small sensory pit (there are several small pits in fagineus) and there are no cibarial teeth. See also C. subfagineus. The figure of the wing is from Edwards (1939), and of the male genitalia redrawn from Delecolle (1985).