BITING MIDGES — WIRTH AND BLANTON 



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Figure 71. — Culicoides transferrans Ortiz, a-e, Female: a, wing; b, thoracic pattern; c, pal- 

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



area priiinose gray-brown. Scutellum yellowish on sides, narrowly 

 dark brown in middle; postscutellum and pleuron dark brown. Legs 

 dark brown, fore and mid femora with subapical and all tibiae with 

 subbasal narrow pale rings; hind tibial comb with four (n = 5) spines, 

 the one next to the spur longest. 



Wing. — Pattern as figured, four pale spots in a rhomboid in cell 

 R5, the distal pair usually fused and broadly attaining wing margin 

 anteriorly; two pale spots each in cells Mi and apices of cells M2 and 

 anal cell; pale spots present behind medial fork and in front of me- 

 diocubital fork. Macrotrichia moderately dense on distal half of 

 wing, a few extending in a line to basal fourth of cell M and a few in 

 anal cell; costa extending to 0.64 of distance to wing tip. Halter 

 yellowish. 



