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British Culicoides
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The wings are similar to those of C. stigma; they are milky-white (clear in slide-mounted specimens) with the second radial cell black. It may be separated from C. stigma by the greyish mesonotum with numerous black dots; the blackish tips of the halteres and the almost straight posterior margin of the ninth tergite in the male. The female AR is 0.92-1.06; the SD is 3,8-10. There is a single spermatheca, as shown. The figure of the wing is from Chaker (1981); that of the spermatheca from Glukhova (1989) and the genitalia from Edwards (1939).
Edwards (1939) records larvae among floating green algae on a small pond, and that adults had been taken feeding on a horse.
Through Europe to Russia, becoming more frequent southwards to the mediterranean.
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British Culicoides
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