C. longipennis (Khalaf 1957)

Taxonomy	Biology	Distribution

Culicoides longipennis Khalaf 1957: 348. TL Iraq
(Khalaf 1957: 348. ♂, ♀, desc, figs)
(Callot, Kremer & Coluzzi 1965: 163. Notes, figs, Italy)
(Kremer 1966: 132. ♂, ♀, notes, fig)
(Navai & Mesghali 1968: 243. Record, Iran)
(Callot et al. 1970: 716. Key, figs)
(Chaker 1981: 57. ♂, ♀, notes, figs. Tunisia)
(Havelka 1982: 78. ♂,  notes, figs)
(Boorman 1988: 158. Record, Rhodes)
(Glukhova 1989: 286. ♂, ♀, notes, figs, pupa)
    = flavisimilis Dzhafarov
Culicoides flavisimilis Dzhafarov 1964: 291. Azerbaijan
(Navai & Mesghali 1968: 243. Record, Iran)

Diagnosis and Notes

The wings are greyish with prominent pale spots as shown. It closely resembles sahariensis, but in that species the pale spot at the base of cell M2 overlaps vein m1. In the male, the posterior part of the aedeagus of longipennis terminates in a few bristles, not in a point as in either sahariensis or similis.
The figures are by Delecolle, from Chaker (1981).