C. okinawensis (Arnaud 1956)
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Culicoides okinawensis
Arnaud 1956: 118. TL Japan
(Arnaud 1956: 118.
(McDonald, Bolinguit & Lu 1973: 644. Description , ♀, notes)
Diagnosis and Notes
The wing is greyish with abundant macrotrichia;
two pale spots, one over the cross-vein from the costa to vein m, the other
just beyond the second radial cell, which is dark. The female AR is1.28; the
SD is 3-14. The mesonotum has a distinctive pattern of dark bands (see the
figures in Arnaud (1956)). The male genitalia as shown; the aedeagus
triangular, and the parameres sharply bent from their base, tapering, and
ending in a blunt tip with a few hairs.
The figure of the wing is from McDonald, Bolinguit & Lu (1973); that of
the male genitalia from Arnaud (1956).
