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British Culicoides
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A medium-sized midge with greyish, unmarked hairy wings. The females of this and of segnis are easily recognised by the very swollen third segment of the palp, with a large deep sensory pit; the basal antennal segments are almost spherical with a large number of very conspicuous sensilla coeloconica. The AR is 1.1-1.49; the SD is3-10. The male genitalia are as shown, the ninth tergite long and tapering with two long apical processes; the aedeagus simple, curved and the parameres bent at right angles for the last third of their length.
The figure of the wing is from Delecolle (1985) and of the male genitalia from Campbell & Pelham-Clinton (1960).
The early stages of either this or of segnis were described by Kettle & Lawson (1952)
Recorded from Ireland, Britain, France, the Czech Republic, Poland, Estonia, Lithuania and Russia.
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British Culicoides
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