BITING MIDGES — WIRTH AND BLANTON 



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Figure 42. — Culicoides carpenteri Wirth and Blanton. a-e. Female: a, wing; b, thoracic 

 pattern; c, palpus; d, tibial comb; e, spermathecae. /, g, Male:/, parameres; g, genitalia, 

 parameres removed. 



Scutellum dark in middle, sides yellowish; postscutellum and pleuron 

 dark brown. Legs brown, all femora with basal and subapical, tibiae 

 with subbasal, and hind tibia with apical wide pale bands; hind 

 tibial comb with four (n= 10) spines, the one nearest the spur longest. 

 Wing. — Pattern as figured; pale areas extensive but comparatively 

 faint; second radial cell very dark; large pale area over r-m crossvein; 

 poststigmatic pale area in cell R5 extensive, extending from anterior 

 wing margin around second radial cell and sometimes fusing with 

 pale spot over crossvein; distal pale spot in cell R5 extensive, broadly 

 extending across cell near apex from anterior wing margin to vein Mi ; 

 apices of veins Mj, M2, M34.4 and Cuj dark; cell Mi with a long 

 basal area extending across veins Mi and M2 to fuse with poststigmatic 

 pale spot in cell R5 and subapical pale spot in cell M2, distal pale 

 spot in cell Mi broadly meeting wing margin; two pale spots in 



