C. yaeyamaensis (Kitaoka 1975)
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Culicoides yaeyamaensis
Kitaoka 1975: 196. TL Japan
(Kitaoka 1975: 196. ♂, ♀, description, figs)
Diagnosis and Notes
The wing is greyish, with pale
spots as shown; one over the cross-vein, reaching the costa, another large
rounded spot just beyond the second radial cell, faint marginal spots in r5,
m1, m2, cu and an, no spot at the base of cell m1, The female AR is
1.51-1.65; the SD 3-15. The male genitalia as shown, the ninth sternite with
a deep excavation and the membrane bare. The author compares this with C.
simulator.
The wing is redrawn from Kitaoka (1975); the male genitalia from the same paper.
