C. matsuzawai (Tokunaga 1950)
| Taxonomy | Biology | Distribution |
Culicoides matsuzawai
Tokunaga 1950: 64. Japan
(Arnaud 1956: 112. ♀, description, notes)
(Kitaoka 1973: 218. ♂, desc, figs)
Diagnosis and Notes
The wings greyish, two pale spots at
the costa, the second radial cell entirely pale, the wing tip pale. The
female AR is0.90; the SD is 3, 11-15. Three oval spermathecae. The male
genitalia as shown; the tergite deeply cleft, very similar if not identical
to that of longicerus.
The figure of the wing is from Arnaud (1956), and that of the male genitalia
from Kitaoka (1973).
