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Figure 34. — Culicoides jamaicensis Edwards, a-e, Female: a, wing; h, thoracic pattern; 

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

 removed. 



opening by a small distal pore. Mandible with 15 (14-17, n=9) teeth. 



Thorax. — Mesonotum with pattern as figured, dark pruinose gray, 

 with three broad, dark brown bands, the median band extending from 

 anterior margin to prescutellar depression and the lateral bands from 

 behind humeral pits to ends of scutellum; these three bands bordered 

 by conspicuous, narrow, whitish pruinose lines. Scutellum dark brown 

 in middle, gray on sides; postscutellum and pleuron dark brown. Legs 

 dark brown; femora pale at bases, femora with subapical and tibiae 

 with subbasal narrow pale rings; hind tibial comb with four (n = 15) 

 spines, the second from the spur very slightly the longest. 



Wing. — Pattern as figured, pale spot over r-m crossvein small but 

 broadly reaching costal margin; cell Rg with four pale spots arranged 

 in a rhomboid, the proximal and distal pairs each sometimes fused into 

 oblique, double spots, the anterior portions of which lie at anterior 



