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Figure 48. — Culicoides venezuelensis Ortiz and Mirsa. a-e. Female: a, wing; b, thoracic 

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

 parameres removed. 



Wing. — Pattern as figured; anterior margin of wing, including 

 second radial cell, very dark; pale spot over r-m crossvein; cell R5 

 pale at base next to r-m crossvein, distally with six small round pale 

 spots arranged in two triangular groups of three each, the proximal 

 group at level of end of costa, the distal group near apex of cell; 

 apices of veins Mi, M2, M3+4 and Cuj with small pale spots at wing 

 margin; three pale spots in cell Mi, the proximal one with a pale 

 extension across middle of vein M2 and joining with the subapical 

 pale spot in cell M2; the distal spot in cell Mi not reaching wing 

 margin; two pale spots in distal portion of cell M2, the distal one 

 separate from wing margin; round pale spot present in center of cell 

 M4; anal cell with two round pale spots in distal portion, two irregular 

 pale areas at base, a faint pale streak in cell M2 in front of medio- 



