C. toshiokai (Kitaoka 1975)
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Culicoides toshiokai
Kitaoka 1975: 194. Japan
(Kitaoka 1975: 194. ♂, ♀, description, figs)
Diagnosis and Notes
The wings are dark greyish, with clear
pale spots as shown; one over the cross-vein extending to the costa, another
beyond the second radial cell, and marginal spots in r5, m1, m2, cu and an.
The female AR 1.20-1.23; the SD 3, 5, 7, 9, 11-15. The male genitalia as
shown, the aedeagus stout, the parameres long and terminating in a fine
filament, the ninth sternite membrane bare.
The wing figure redrawn from Kitaoka (1975); the male genitalia from the same
paper.
