C. irimotensis (Kitaoka 1975)
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Culicoides iriomotensis
Kitaoka 1975: 198. TL Japan
(Kitaoka 1975: 198. ♂, ♀, description, figs)
Diagnosis and Notes
The wings are dark greyish with
prominent pale spots as shown, those in r5, m1 and m2 well removed from the wing
margin, the second radial cell dark. The female AR is 1.34 and the SD is
3-11, 13-15. The male genitalia as shown; the ninth tergite margin with a
deep central cleft, the ninth sternite membrane bare.
The figure of the wing redrawn from Kitaoka (1975) and the male genitalia
from the same paper.
