BITING MIDGES — WIRTH AND BLANTON 



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Culicoides dovei Hall, 1932, Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 34, p. 88 (male, 

 female; Georgia; fig. male genitalia); Dove, Hall and Hull, 1932, Ann. Ent. 

 Soc. Amer., vol. 25, p. 505 (biology, United States; fig. all stages). 



Female: Length of wing 0.91 (0.88-0.99, n==16) mm. 



Head. — Eyes narrowly separated, bare. Antenna with flagellar 

 segments in proportion of 16:12:12:12:12:12:12:12:20:22:24:25:35, 

 antennal ratio 1.28 (1.09-1.51, n = 7); distal sensory tufts present 

 on segments iii, vii-x. Palpal segments in proportion of 11 :24:28:10: 

 13, third segment slightly swollen, 2.4 (2.1-2.9, n=16) times as long 

 as greatest breadth, with a small, shallow, sensory pit. Mandible with 

 15 (12-17, n=16) teeth. 



Thorax. — Mesonotum pollinose grayish, with a prominent pattern 

 consisting of numerous, evenly scattered, punctiform brown dots at 

 the seta bases. Scutellum brown in middle, grayish pruinose on sides; 

 postscutellum and pleuron dark brown. Legs brown, knee spots 

 blackish; femora pale at bases, femora with subapical, tibiae with 

 subbasal and hind tibia with apical, narrow pale rings; hind tibial 

 comb with four (n=15) spines, the one next to the spur longest. 



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Figure 62. — Culicoides jurens (Poey). a-e. Female: a, wing; h, thoracic pattern; c, palpus; 

 d, tibial comb; e, spermathecae. j-h, Male:/, aedeagus, variation; g, parameres; h, geni- 

 talia, parameres removed. 



