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• Culicoides furcillatus Callot, Kremer & Paradis 1962. 771. TL France
• (Callot, Kremer & Paradis 1962: 771. , , description, figs)
• (Kremer 1966: 179. , , notes, fig)
• (Delecolle 1985: 191. , , notes, figs)
• (Boorman 1986: 260. Notes)

Diagnosis & Notes:

The wings are greyish, with two small pale spots; one in the region of the cross-vein, the other just beyond the second radial cell. The female AR is 0.92-1.07; the SD is 3, 7, 9-15, occasionally also on 8, sometimes absent from 7, 8, 9 or 10. The male genitalia are distinctive; the ninth tergite margin wide with long divergent lateral processes, the parameres with bifid or trifid tips, the ninth sternite membrane spiculate.

The figures are from Delecolle (1985).

Biology:

Found in woodland.

Distribution:

Ireland, Britain, Portugal, France, Corsica, Poland and Ukraine.

Medical and Veterinary Importance:

Nothing known.