C. variifrons (Glukhova & Ivanov 1967)
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Culicoides variifrons
Glukhova & Ivanov in: Ivanov & Glukhova 1967: 810.
TL Russia
(Glukhova 1989: 279. ♂, ♀, notes, figs)
Diagnosis and Notes
The wings are greyish with three
pale areas; one over the cross-veing from the costa extending into the base
of cell m; a circular spot just beyond the second radial cell but just clipping the end of that cell, and another
smaller spot in the anal cell below the cubital fork. The female AR is
0.85-1.01, and the SD is 3, 11-15. The spacing of the eyes variable from
contiguous to one or two facets; two spermathecae. The male genitalia as
shown, the aedeagus drawn out to a bifurcate point posteriorly, the ninth
sternite membrane bare.
The figures are from Glukhova (1989).
