C. pseudopallidus (Khalaf 1961)

Taxonomy	Biology	Distribution

Culicoides pseudopallidus Khalaf 1961: 466. Iraq
(Khalaf 1961: 466. ♂, ♀, desc, figs)
(Callot, Kremer & Basset 1968: 277. Redescribed, ♂, ♀, figs)
(Kremer et al 1973: 61. Notes, figs, key)
(Chaker 1981: 121. ♂, ♀, notes, figs. Tunisia)

Diagnosis and Notes

The wings are greyish, with a distinctive pattern of pale spots; a large pale patch from over the cross-vein to and just beyond the second radial cell and below the cross-vein to the base of cell m1; a pale spot in the cubital cell and one in the anal cell, and faint traces of spots at the ends of cells r5, m1 and m2. The female third palp segment swollen with a large shallow sensory pit; the AR 1.19-1.27, the SD 3-15. The male genitalia very like those of odiatus, the ninth sternite membrane densely spiculate.
The figures are from Callot, Kremer & Basset (1968).