C. sergenti (Kieffer 1921)

Taxonomy	Biology	Distribution

Culicoides sergenti Kieffer 1921: 113. Algeria
(Szadziewski 1984: 170. Synon, redesc, ♂, ♀, figs)
    = citrinellus Kieffer
Culicoides citrinellus Kieffer 1923: 674. Algeria
(Kieffer 1923: 674. ♂, ♀, desc, fig)
(Kremer 1966: 106. ♂, ♀, notes, figs)
(Glukhova 1989: 301. ♂, ♀, notes, figs)
    = mosulensis Khalaf
Culicoides mosulensis Khalaf 1957: 339. Iraq
(Khalaf 1957: 339. ♂,  desc, fig)
(Khalaf 1961: 455. Notes)
(Kremer 1966: 104. ♂, ♀, notes, fig)
(Boorman 1974: 615. Note, synonymy)
    = turkmenicus Gutsevich
Culicoides turkmenicus Gutsevich 1959: 678. Turkmenistan
(Gutsevich 1959: 678. ♂, ♀, desc, figs)
(Gutsevich 1960: 112. ♂, ♀, notes, figs)
(Kremer 1966: 108. ♂, ♀, notes, figs)
(Navai & Mesghali 1968: 246. Record, Iran)

Diagnosis and Notes

The wing is greyish, without markings except for a rather vague pale area just beyond and also just below the radial cells. The female AR is 0.94-1.02; the SD is 3-10. It could easily be mistaken for azerbajdzhanicus or ravus but the male genitalia differ from either of these two species, particularly in the form of the parameres and of the aedeagus.
The figure of the male genitalia is from Boorman (1989); the wing is not illustrated.