C. latifrontis (Shakirzjanova 1962)
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Culicoides latifrontis
Shakirzjanova 1962: 256. TL Kazakhstan
(Shakirzjanova 1962: 256. ♀, description, figs)
(Orszagh 1973: 889. Record, note, figs, Czechoslovakia)
(Glukhova 1989: 333. ♀, notes, figs)
= kobachidzei Dzhafarov
Culicoides kobachidzei Dzhafarov
1964: 348. TL Georgia
Diagnosis and Notes
Another species with unmarked
wings; the female AR 0.94-1.10 and the SD 3, 11-15.The eyes are widely
spaced; the third segment of the palp swollen with a deep sensory pit and two
subspherical spermathecae. The male appears to be unknown.
The figure of the eyes, palp and spermathecae is from Glukhova (1989).
