C. pastus (Kitaoka 1980)
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Culicoides pastus
Kitaoka 1980: 11. TL Japan
(Kitaoka 1980: 11. ♂, ♀, description, figs)
Diagnosis and Notes
A member of the subgenus Avaritia;
the second radial cell is pale, the wing with numerous vague spots with the
most prominent being over the cross-vein and just beyond the second radial
cell. The female AR is 1.04-1.15; the SD 3, 11-15. The male genitalia as
shown; the ninth tergite margin without lateral processes, the aedeagus with
a central peg, the ninth sternite widely emarginate with the membrane bare.
The figure of the male genitalia is from Kitaoka (1980); the wing redrawn
from the same paper.
