C. sinanoensis (Tokunaga 1937)

Taxonomy	Biology	Distribution

Culicoides sinanoensis Tokunaga 1937: 331. TL Japan
(Tokunaga 1937: 331. ♀, desc, figs)
(Arnaud 1956: 129. Notes, figs)
(Gutsevich 1960: 77. ♂, ♀, notes, figs)
(Kremer 1966: 193. notes)
(Glukhova 1969: 463. Larva, desc, figs)
(Glukhova 1979: 188. Larva)
(Mirzaeva 1984: 367. Note, figs, key to Avaritia)
(Glukhova 1989: 195. ♂, ♀, notes, figs)
    = obsoletiformis Amosova
Culicoides obsoletiformis Amosova 1957: 233. TL Russia
(Amosova 1957: 233. ♂, ♀, desc, figs)
(Kremer 1966: 195. ♂, notes)

Diagnosis and Notes

The wings are rather vaguely marked; macrotrichia mainly confined to the edge of the wing, with a few in the cubital and anal cells. The female antennae with SD 3, 13-15; AR 1.1-1.2. Third segment of the palp slender, with a single small, shallow sensory pit near the apex. Male genitalia with the ninth sternite “very long with a narrow, deep emargination”according to Arnaud (1956), the aedeagus and parameres complex.The ninth tergite has a pair of broad, diverging lateral lobes. The figure of the wing and genitalia from Glukhova (1989).