C. sasai (Kitaoka 1975)
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Culicoides sasai
Kitaoka 1975: 192: TL Japan
(Kitaoka 1975: 192. ♂, ♀, description, figs)
Diagnosis and Notes
The wings dark greyish with
whitish paler spots, a spot over the cross-vein and another just beyond the second
radial cell, almost reaching m1; very faint marginal spots in r5, m1, m2 and
cu. The female AR 1.29; the SD 3-10, 12 and 14; the eyes hairy. The male
genitalia with the aedeagus very characteristic, as shown; the parameres long
with terminal barbs, the ventral roots of the basistyles simple and long, the
ninth sternite membrane bare.
The figure of the wing redrawn from Kitaoka (1975), and the male genitalia
from the same paper.
