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Photograph of wing at right: click to enlarge.

• Culicoides brunnicans Edwards 1939: 43. Great Britain
• (Campbell & P.C. 1960: 256. , , notes, keys, figs)
• (Kremer 1966: 94. , , notes, figs)
• (Orszagh 1973: 894. Record, note, figs, Czechoslovakia)
• (Delecolle 1985: 137. , , notes, figs)

Diagnosis & Notes:

The wing is pale; the second radial cell darkened and with a definite although sometimes indistinct dark spot just below the radial cells. The female AR is 1.08-1.15; the SD is 3, 5, 7, 9, 11-15 and occasionally also on either of 4, 6, 8 and 10. The male is easily recognised by its genitalia; the foot-shaped ventral root of the basistyle and the characteristic double-curved parameres, the ninth sternite membrane bare.

The figures of the wing and male genitalia are from Edwards (1939).

Biology:

Usually found early in the season; it has been recorded biting man.

Distribution:

From Ireland, Britain, France and Italy; Spain and Portugal and Israel.

Medical and Veterinary Importance:

Nothing known.