Genus Culex. 
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9. Culex glaphykopterus. Schiner (1864). 
(Faun. Austr. Die Fliegen, ii. p. 628, 10, Schiner (1864); Venti Specie di 
Zanzare, p. 144 (1899), Ficalbi.) 
This species was described by Schiner from Austria, and 
redescribed in 1899 by Ficalbi. 
“ The wings are spotted as in Culex annulatus, but the legs are 
unhanded; thorax brownish-yellow, with golden tomentum and four 
dark longitudinal lines ; abdomen nearly black, the segments with basal 
white bands; 6 palpi dark, swollen at the end, pale at the base, but 
Fig. 113. 
Culex glaphyropterus (after 
Ficalbi). 
Male genitalia. 
Fig. 114. 
Male and female ungues 
of Culex glaphyropterus 
(after Ficalbi). 
otherwise not adorned; in the 9 , according to Ficalbi, they are brownish, 
with a small conical fourth joint, and according to the latter authority the 
thorax has two indistinct lateral border lines of golden scales on a reddish- 
brown ground colour. Length, 9 mm. 
“ The ungues of the male are unequal in the fore and mid legs, the 
larger one twice-toothed, the smaller once; hind ungues and those of the 
9 equal and simple.” 
Note.— I have not seen this species; it reads very much like C. annu¬ 
latus , but must be quite distinct, for the tarsi are non-banded, and there 
are other minor differences, but the 6 ungues are evidently very like 
those of C. annulatus; there is also a slight difference in the 6 genitalia 
shown in Ficalbi’s figures, Nos. 69 and 71. 
