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British Culicoides

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Culicoides (unplaced) cameroni (Campbell & Pelham-Clinton)

No wing photo available.

• Culicoides cameroni Campbell & Pelham-Clinton 1960: 222. TL Scotland.
• (Campbell & Pelham-Clinton 1960: 222. , , description, figs, keys)
• (Kremer 1966: 84. , , figs, notes)
• (Albu & Damnian-Georgescu, 1969: 307. Record, Romania, fig,)
• (Orszagh 1971: 88. Record, note, figs, Czechoslovakia)

Diagnosis & Notes:

The wings are greyish, unmarked, covered with long macrotrichia. The third segment of the female antenna swollen, with numerous sensilla; AR very high, 1.85-1.98, sensilla only on segment 3, absent from all other segments. The male genitalia with the base of the dististyle swollen, the apical part slender and sharply curved. The parameres long and simple, the ninth sternite membrane densely spiculate.

No figure of the wing was available; the figure of the male genitalia from Campbell & Pelham-Clinton (1960).

Biology:

Bred from moss from under a waterfall; the early stages undescribed. It has also been taken at light.

Distribution:

U.K. (Scotland), Czechoslovakia, Romania.

Medical and Veterinary Importance:

Nothing known.

British Culicoides

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