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British Culicoides
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A small, very vaguely marked species with the wings almost devoid of macrotrichia and with the second radial cell pale; the wing length around 1.10mm. It differs from C. dewulfi, obsoletus and scoticus in its small size, and at first sight almost unmarked wings; and from other small unmarked species by the lack of macrotrichia, and most notably by having the eyes hairy. The female antennal ratio is 1.03-1.15, the sensilla distribution 3,11-15. The third segment of the palp is moderately swollen, the palp ratio 2.1, with a single small circular sensory pit. The male resembles C. dewulfi in having the ninth sternite deeply emarginate, but differs in having the membrane bare.
From Britain through Europe to USSR and Japan, and north to Scandinavia.
Nothing known, although being a member of the obsoletus group of species it must be considered a potential vector of bluetongue.
British Culicoides
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