C. mesghalii (Navai 1973)

Taxonomy	Biology	Distribution

Culicoides mesghalii Navai 1973: 196. TL Iran
(Navai 1973: 196. ♂, ♀, desc, figs, biology)

Diagnosis and Notes

The wings are pale with rather vague dark markings reminiscent of C. imicola save that in this species the second radial cell is completely dark. The female AR is 0.94-1.18; the SD is 3, 7-14, often also on 5 and 6. The third palpal segment is distinctive, as shown,  being very swollen with numerous small sensory pits. The male genitalia are as shown; the posterior margin of the ninth tergite almost straight, the ventral roots of the basistyles foot-shaped, the parameres long and slender and the aedeagus slender, triangular.
The figures are from Boorman (1989).