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British Culicoides

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Culicoides (Beltranmyia) Culicoides salinarius (Kieffer)

Photograph of wing at right: click to enlarge.

Culicoides salinarius Kieffer 1914: 236. TL Germany
(Kieffer 1914: 236. , , desc)
(Edwards 1939: 35, 134. Notes, figs)
(Kettle & Lawson 1952: 439. Early stages, key)
(Campbell & Pelham-Clinton 1960: 240. , , notes, keys, figs)
(Gutsevich 1960: 62. , , notes, figs)
(Smatov 1966: 81. Notes, record Kazakhstan)
(Kremer 1966: 222. , , notes, figs)
Glukhova 1979: 217. Larva)
(Delecolle 1985: 43. , , notes, figs)
(Boorman 1986: 256. Notes)
(Glukhova 1989: 339. , , notes, figs, pupa)

= halobius (Kieffer)

Culicoides halobius Kieffer 1914: 237. TL Germany
(Kieffer 1914: 237. , desc)

= meinerti (Kieffer)

Culicoides meinerti Kieffer 1915: 284. TL Denmark
(Kieffer 1915: 284. , , desc)

= punctatidorsum (Kieffer)

Culicoides punctatidorsum Kieffer 1924: 17. TL Germany

Diagnosis & Notes:

It differs from circumscriptus in that the dark spot just distal to vein R-M is absent, and the border to vein CU2 is dark. A single spermatheca; AR 1.34-1.41, SD 3-14 (occasionally absent from 4, 5 or 6). The figure of the wing is from Edwards (1939) and of the genitalia from Kremer (1966)

Biology:

Dzhafarov (1964) records this species as attacking humans from April until November.

Distribution:

Found mostly in coastal areas, and especially in saline habitats and salt marshes, but also inland, throughout Europe to Estonia, Finland and Russia; also Algeria.

Medical and Veterinary Importance:

Nothing known.

British Culicoides

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