C. odiatus (Austen 1921)

Taxonomy	Biology	Distribution

Culicoides odiatus Austen 1921: 112. TL Israel
(Austen 1921: 112. ♀, desc)
(Kremer 1966: 122. ♂, ♀, notes, fig)
(Boorman 1974: 615. Note, synonymy)
(Glukhova 1989: 296. ♂, ♀, notes, figs, pupa)
    = niger Dzhafarov
Culicoides pallidicornis var. niger Dzhafarov 1960: 1183. TL Azerbaijan (preocc.)
    = indistinctus Khalaf
Culicoides indistinctus Khalaf 1961: 461. TL Iraq
(Khalaf 1961: 461. ♂, ♀, desc, figs)
(Boorman 1974: 615. Note)
    = lailae Khalaf
Culicoides lailae Khalaf 1961: 458. TL Iraq
(Khalaf 1961: 458. ♂, ♀, desc, figs)
(Navai 1970: 6. record, Iran)
(Remm 1973: 174.  ♀, record, Mongolia)
(Remm 1981: 29. Synonymy)
(Chaker 1981: 102. ♂, ♀, notes, figs. Tunisia)
    = kureksthaicus Dzhafarov
Culicoides kureksthaicus Dzhafarov 1962: 209. TL Azerbaijan
(Dzhafarov 1962: 209.(121). ♂, ♀, desc, figs)
(Callot, Kremer, Rioux & Juminer 1964: 361. Notes, Tunis)
(Smatov 1966: 87. Notes, record Kazakhstan)
(Callot, Kremer, Molet & Bach 1968: 94. records, France, Tunisia)
    = conicus Remm
Culicoides conicus Remm in Remm & Zhogolev 1968: 839. TL Ukraine
(Remm 1968: 839 (510). ♂, ♀, figs)

Diagnosis and Notes

The wing is greyish, almost featureless save for a vague pale spot below the first radial cell and over the cross-vein, and another small spot just beyond the second radial cell. The female AR is 0.96- 1.03 and the SD is 3-14. The third segment of the palp is swollen with a deep, conical sensory pit. The male genitalia are distinctive; the ninth tergite broad, narrowing posteriorly with prominent, divergent processes, the parameres tapering, bent outwards at their tips, the ninth sternite membrane spiculate.
The figure of the male genitalia is from Boorman (1989); that of the wing from Chaker (1981).