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Culicoides imicola

Description

Key to males of Australasian species of the Imicola complex

1. Apical pale marking in cell m1 reaching or crossing vein M2 subapically then narrowing apically and not touching vein M2 at wing margin (Fig. 9), ventral membrane of 9th sternite spiculate (Fig. 40)................................. nudipalpis

- Apical pale marking in cell m1 not narrowed apically and touching vein M2 at wing margin (Fig. 5, 7), ventral membrane of 9th sternite bare (Fig. 34, 37)............................................................................ 2

2. Wing with proximal dark marking on costa at most 1.5 times as long as stigmatic dark spot (Fig. 7)............ brevitarsis

- Wing with proximal dark marking on costa at least twice as long as stigmatic dark spot (Fig. 5)................. asiatica

Notes

Published as part of Bellis, Glenn, Dyce, Alan, Gopurenko, David, Yanase, Tohru, Garros, Claire, Labuschagne, Karien & Mitchell, Andrew, 2014, Revision of the Culicoides (Avaritia) Imicola complex Khamala & Kettle (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from the Australasian region, pp. 401-427 in Zootaxa 3768 (4) on page 405, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3768.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/218566

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Biodiversity

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Ceratopogonidae
Genus
Culicoides
Species
imicola
Taxon rank
species