C. haranti (Rioux, Descous & Pech 1959)

Taxonomy	Biology	Distribution

Culicoides haranti Rioux, Descous & Pech 1959: 432. TL France
(Rioux et al 1959: 432. ♂, ♀, desc, figs, biotope)
(Coluzzi & Kremer 1964:67 . Notes, record, Italy)
(Kremer 1966: 158. ♂, ♀, notes, fig)
(Kremer, Callot & Hommel 1973: 61. Notes, figs, key)
Braverman, Boorman, Kremer & Delecolle 1976: 181. Record, Israel, notes)
(Capela, Kremer et al. 1990: 563. Record, Portugal)

Diagnosis and Notes

A small species, the mesonotum with a central dark line and with lateral dark patches.
The wing has nine very vague pale spots, the most obvious the ones just before and just after the second radial cell, with others at the wing margin in cells r5, m1, m2, cu and an, also one at the base of the wing and another very vague streak at the base of cell m. The male genitalia as shown, with large lateral processes on the ninth tergite; the parameres long and tapering, the apical third bent anteriorly.
The figure of the male genitalia is from Kremer (1966), after the authors, and of the wing by JB from a British specimen.