C. leucostictus (Kieffer 1911)

Taxonomy	Biology	Distribution

Culicoides leucostictus Kieffer 1911: 340. TL Seychelles
    = praetermissus Carter, Ingram & Macfie 1920
Culicoides praetermissus Carter, Ingram & Macfie 1920: 240. TL Ghana
    = egypti Macfie
Culicoides distinctipennis var. egypti Macfie 1924: 66. TL Egypt
(Macfie 1924: 66. ♀, desc)
(Macfie 1943: 154. ♂, ♀)
    = pharao Kieffer
Culicoides pharao Kieffer 1925: 259. TL Egypt
(Kieffer 1925: 259. ♂, ♀, desc, fig male)

Diagnosis and Notes

The wings are dark greyish with prominent pale rounded spots disposed as shown. It could be mistaken for similis, but the antennal sensilla distribution is different; it very closely resembles distinctipennis (with which it has often be confused) but distinctipennis lack the pale spot just beyond and below the second radial pale spot (see data sheet 170). Both these species have a single peg-top-shaped spermatheca. The male genitalia with a deep posterior central notch on the ninth tergite; the ninth sternite membrane spiculate.
The figure of the wing is from Khamala & Kettle (1971) and of the male genitalia from Boorman (1989).