C. japonicus (Arnaud)

Taxonomy	Biology	Distribution

Culicoides japonicus Arnaud 1956: 106. Japan
(Kitaoka 1980: 21. Desc. ♂, figs, notes)
(Glukhova 1989: 346. ♂, ♀, notes, figs)
(Mirzaeva 1989: 186. Notes, figs)
    = litoreus Amosova
Culicoides litoreus Amosova 1957: 241. Russia
(Amosova 1957: 241. ♀, desc, figs)
(Gutsevich 1960: 66. ♂, ♀, notes, figs)
(Kremer 1966: 229. ♀, notes, fig)

Diagnosis and Notes

The second radial cell is dark brown; wing with the usual pale spots arranged more or less as two bands across the wing, and spots at the ends of the cells. Female AR 1.10-1.26; SD 3, 5-14. Third segment of the palp slender, with a single shallow sensory pit; a single ovoid spermatheca. In the male genitalia the posterior margin of the tergite is convex, with a deep central notch; the ninth sternite membrane is bare. The figure of the wing is from Glukhova (1989), and of the male genitalia redrawn from Kitaoka (1980).