C. peregrinus (Kieffer 1910)

Taxonomy	Biology	Distribution

Culicoides peregrinus Kieffer 1910: 191. TL India
(Arnaud 1956: 122. Description, figs, notes)
(McDonald, Bolinguit & Lu 1973: 246: description ♀, notes)
(Wirth & Hubert 1989: 228. Description, notes)
    = megaforticeps Kitaoka
Culicoides megaforticeps Kitaoka 1973: 212. TL Japan
(Kitaoka 1973: 212. ♂, ♀, description, figs)

Diagnosis and Notes

The wings are dark with prominent pale markings; the second radial cell entirely pale and a pair of comet-shaped pale marks in cells m1 and m2. The female AR is 1.11 - 1.24; the SD is 3, 11-15. The third segment of the palp slender, with a single small irregular sensory pit. The male genitalia as shown; the aedeagus with a long posterior part with a rounded tip, the ninth sternite membrane bare.
The figure of the wing is from McDonald, Bolinguit & Lu (1973) and of the male genitalia from Arnaud (1956).