Simulium (Simulium) rudnicki Takaoka & Davies, 1995

Takaoka, Hiroyuki, Ya’Cob, Zubaidah & Sofian-Azirun, Mohd, 2018, Classification, annotated list and keys for the black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) of Peninsular Malaysia, Zootaxa 4498 (1), pp. 1-65 : 47

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4498.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5980520
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scientific name	Simulium (Simulium) rudnicki Takaoka & Davies, 1995
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46. Simulium (Simulium) rudnicki Takaoka & Davies, 1995 View in CoL

Simulium (Simulium) rudnicki Takaoka & Davies, 1995: 155 View in CoL –157 (Female); Takaoka & Choochote, 2004: 311–314 (Male, pupa and larva).

This species was described from females collected from Langkawi Island (Takaoka and Davies, 1995), and later recorded from Thailand ( Kuvangkadilok and Takaoka, 2000). The male, pupa and larva were described from specimens collected from Thailand ( Takaoka and Choochote, 2004b). It is characterized in the female by the ovipositor valve with inner and posterior margins narrowly transparent and the simple claw, in the male by the flat ventral plate and in the pupa by the cocoon with a large anterolateral window on each side and gill with six filaments.

No additional samples have been collected from Peninsular Malaysia.