Culicoides
- Dataset
- Morphological and molecular analysis of the genus Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in Slovakia with five new records
- Rank
- GENUS
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Diptera
- family
- Ceratopogonidae
- genus
- Culicoides
diagnosis
Diagnosis. Modified from Glukhova (1977): Female with eyes narrowly separated by a distance of 1 or 2 facets; sensilla coeloconica (SCo) on antennal segments 1, 9 – 13; wings gray, densely hairy with macrotrichia over entire surface, patterned with 2 – 6 small pale spots with or without extra faint pale spots in distal parts of cells r 3, m 1 and m 2; two sclerotized spermathecae with well pronounced necks, a sclerotized ring at the end of the spermathecal duct present. Male: Genitalia with distinct apico-lateral processes on the 9 th tergite; broad and tapering aedeagus, parameres short and thick with weakly elongated ends; ventral roots of gonocoxite tapering or elongated; basal membrane of ninth sternite spiculate. Type species: Ceratopogon fascipennis Staeger
Name
- Homonyms
- Culicoides