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Figure 52. — Culicoides paucienfuscatus Barbosa. a-e, Female: a, wing; b, thoracic pattern; 

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

 removed. 



brown longitudinal lines with a transverse line at level of lateral suture. 

 Scutellum narrowly blackish in middle, yellowish on sides; post- 

 scutellum and pleuron blackish. Legs dark brown; all femora with 

 subapical, tibiae with subbasal and hind tibia with apical, narrow pale 

 rings; hind tibial comb with four 4 (n= 12) spines, the two nearest the 

 spur longest, subequal. 



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

 pale spot over r-m crossvein, broadly reaching costal margin and ex- 

 tending through half the breadth of cell Mg; wing pattern appearing as 

 limited dark spots on a pale ground due to extensive fusion of the pale 

 spots; pale spots at post-stigmatic level continued as an unbroken 

 band to hind wing margin, distad of this band veins Mi, M2 and M3+4 

 are pale margined ; cell R5 with a C-shaped pale poststigmatic pale spot 



