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Figure 45. — Culicoides carsiomelas 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. 



pits to prescutellar depression and wing bases brownish yellow. 

 Scutellum yellowish, brown in middle on anterior margin; postscutel- 

 lum and pleuron brownish black. Legs brown, fore and mid femora 

 with subapical, all tibia with subbasal and hind tibia with apical 

 narrow pale rings; hind tibial comb with four (3-5, n=6) spines, the 

 one nearest the spur longest. 



Wing. — Pattern as figured; second radial cell moderately dark, very 

 broad, subequal in length to the first; r-m crossvein infuscated, lying 

 in a broad pale spot which broadly reaches costal margin; cell Rs 

 with three pale spots, the proximal one a flattened U-shaped spot 

 lying behind second radial cell, second spot lying on anterior wing 

 margin just distad of end of costa, third spot occupying middle of 

 distal part of cell, sometimes attaining anterior wing margin; apices 



