Culicoides distinctus Sen & Das Gupta

Nandi, Mou & Mazumdar, Abhijit, 2014, Revision of the subgenus Diphaomyia Vargas of Culicoides Latreille from India with description of a new species (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), Zootaxa 3793 (4), pp. 465-474 : 467

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3793.4.5
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5671419
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scientific name	Culicoides distinctus Sen & Das Gupta
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Culicoides distinctus Sen & Das Gupta View in CoL

(PLATE 1C1–C3)

Culicoides distinctus Sen & Das Gupta, 1959: 618 View in CoL ; Wirth & Hubert, 1989: 370.

Materials examined. Paratypes 1♂, 1♀, Dum Dum, August 1957, Coll. S.K. Das Gupta; 1♀, Dum Dum, 11 July 2000, Coll. U. Majumdar.

Diagnosis (Modified after Wirth & Hubert, 1989). This species may be diagnosed by the following combination of characters like, SCo present on flagellomeres 1,5–8; proximal poststigmatic pale spot bilobed, posterior lobe almost straight towards vein M1, cell m1 with a single distal pale spot. Males with aedeagus having lateral processes, tergum IX with moderately long apicolateral process, parameres with low ventral lobes and distal fan-like expansion bearing 5 lateral spines.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Diptera
Family	Ceratopogonidae
Genus	Culicoides