Leptoconops

Mazumdar, Abhijit, Saha, Narayan C. & Chaudhuri, Prasanta K., 2010, Blood sucking midges of Leptoconops (Holoconops Kieffer) (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from India, Zootaxa 2619, pp. 49-55 : 54

Key to females of Indian species of Leptoconops ( Holoconops Kieffer

(Only L. brevistylus is known as a male and the key is restricted therefore to females).

1. Eyes separated as wide as 13 facets. Wing pale with brown stigma. Spermathecae with 3 small apical spots ............. ....................................................................................................................................................................... brevistylus

- Eyes separated by less than 13 facets. Wing brown with dark brown stigma. Spermathecae with more than 3 apical spots .............................................................................................................................................................................. 2

2. Eyes separated as wide as 10 facets. Wing light brown with dark brown stigma. Spermathecae each with 7 and 8 apical spots in two distinct rows of apical spots ................................................................................................. fortipalpis

- Eyes separated as wide as 6 facets. Wing distinctly brown with dark brown stigma. Spermathecae each with 4 and 8 stray apical spots .................................................................................................................................. tenebrostigmatus