C. filicinus (Gornostaeva & Gachegova 1972)

Taxonomy	Biology	Distribution

Culicoides filicinus Gornostaeva & Gachegova 1972: 522. TL Russia
(Gornostaeva & Gachegova 1972: 522. ♂, ♀, desc, figs, larva, pupa)
(Glukhova 1979: 189. Larva)
(Gornostaeva 1980: 271 ♂, diagnosis, figs)
(Mirzaeva 1984: 374. Note, figs, key to Avaritia)
(Glukhova 1989: 190. ♂, ♀, notes, figs, pupa)

Diagnosis and Notes

A fairly well-marked species, rather similar to C. impunctatus, but with sparse macrotrichia towards the distal edge of the wing only. SD 3, 11-15; AR 1.16-1.28. Female with the third segment of the palp slender, with a single sensory pit at the end of the segment, and two spermathecae. Male genitalia very like those of C. obsoletus, but the ninth sternite with a V-shaped central notch, the membrane bare. The figures are from Glukhova 1989.