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A Monograph of Culicidae. 



Kerteszia boliviensis. Theobald (1905). 

 Ann. Mus. Nat. Hnng. III., p. 66 (1905). 



Head black with median frontal yellow spot. Thorax ashy- 

 grey with two straight parallel median brown stripes, and 

 a broad curved brown stripe on each side. Abdomen dark 

 brown, with dark brown scales and hairs. Legs brown and 

 banded ; the anterior first tarsals with yellowish white apical, 

 median and basal bands ; the next two tarsals with broad pale 

 apical dorsal area, the brown forming only a small basal area 

 and all over the under surface, last two segments dark ; the 

 mid legs with the first tarsal banding not so clear and only the 

 second tarsal with a broad apical pale dorsal area ; hind legs as 

 in the mid, but the apical pale areas smaller on the first tarsal. 



Wings with four yellow costal spots spreading evenly on to 

 the first long vein ; most of the veins dusky scaled, a few 

 pale areas. 



9 . Head brown densely clothed with large upright forked 

 scales, black except a small median wedge-shaped area in front 

 and a few yellow narrow-curved ones projecting forwards in front, 

 brown forwardly projecting hairs except in the centre where 

 they are yellow ; antennae dark brown, basal joints with dense 

 black scales ; proboscis deep brown ; palpi densely scaled with 

 black scales and with three narrow yellow apical bands, tip 

 yellow (formed by the third band). 



Thorax ashy-grey with two straight parallel median brown 

 lines and a curved brown broader line on each side, covered 



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Fig. 26. 



Kerteszia boliviensis. Theobald. 9 . 



A, Thoracic markings ; B, front of mesothorax ; C, abdominal scales. 



scantily with golden hair-like curved scales which arise from black 

 specks ; in front three patches of creamy curved scales, ending 

 bluntly. Scutellum with hairs, and brown border-bristles ; 



