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Figure 68. — Culicoides leopoldoi Ortiz, a-e, Female: a, wing; h, thoracic pattern; c, palpus; 

 d, tibial comb; e, spermatheca. /, g, Male:/, parameres; g, genitalia, parameres removed. 



yellowish gray on the sides; postsciitellum and pleuron dark brown. 

 Legs dark brown; all femora with subapical, all tibiae with subbasal, 

 and hind tibiae with apical, narrow pale rings; hind tibial comb with 

 four (n=ll) spines, the one nearest the spur longest. 



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

 over r-m crossvein extensive, broadly meeting anterior wing margin; 

 cell R5 with four pale spots, the anterior poststigmatic spot moderate 

 in size and separated from the two, small, longitudinally aligned, post- 

 stigmatic spots, distal pale spot in cell R5 large, meeting wing margin 

 broadly and bearing a narrow proximal extension; veins M,, M2 and 

 M3^.4 each with pale spot at wing margin; cell Mi with two pale spots, 

 the second located far from wing margin; two pale spots in distal part 

 of cell M2; pale spot in cell M4 small and round and not meeting wing 

 margin; anal cell with two round pale spots in distal part, a large. 



