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Issue: Vol. 4107 No. 3: 3 May 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-05-03
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4107.3.9
Page range: 413–422
Abstract views: 44
PDF downloaded: 1

A redescription of Culicoides griseidorsum Kieffer, 1918, with comments on subgeneric position of some European taxa (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)

Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Parasitology, University of Gdańsk, Wita Stwosza 59, 80-308 Gdańsk, Poland
Laboratory of Parasitology, “Institute of Experimental and Clinical Veterinary Medicine”, National Scientific Center, Pushkinska 83, 61023 Kharkiv, Ukraine
Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Parasitology, University of Gdańsk, Wita Stwosza 59, 80-308 Gdańsk, Poland
Ceratopogonidae Culicoides Sensiculicoides Oecacta diagnosis checklist Europe Diptera

Abstract

Culicoides griseidorsum Kieffer, 1918 is formally redescribed, and the male described and illustrated for the first time. The species is placed within Sensiculicoides Shevchenko, 1977 the subgenus restored from the synonymy with Oecacta Poey, 1853. A checklist of European species placed in subgenera Sensiculicoides and Oecacta is provided.

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