Culicoides mukerjii Majumdar & 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 : 468

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3793.4.5
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:E53C8ADE-8E67-4112-AA25-C5F7898E4425
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5671423
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/4B3187E4-FFC8-FF89-8FE4-4799FCD36F16
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Culicoides mukerjii Majumdar & Das Gupta
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Culicoides mukerjii Majumdar & Das Gupta View in CoL

(PLATE 1E1–E3)

Culicoides mukerjii Majumdar & Das Gupta, In Gangopadhyay & Das Gupta 1998: 125 View in CoL .

Materials examined. Paratype ♀, Habra, 22 May 1967, Coll. B.C. Majumdar; 2♂, 3♀, Kalyani, 14 April 2004, Coll. S. Nandi; 1♂, 2♀, West Bengal, Burdwan, 23.2383 N, 87.8608 E, 21 April 2005, Coll. S. Nandi.

Diagnosis (Modified after Gangopadhyay & Das Gupta, 1998). The species described by Majumdar & Das Gupta in Diphaomyia may be recognized by moderately separated, bare eyes, SCo on flagellomeres 1,5–8, proximal poststigmatic pale spot constricted, posterior lobe slightly directed in front, prominent constriction of distal anal pale spot; rudimentary spermatheca swollen distally. Male with aedeagus possessing lateral processes and fan-like expansion of parameres bearing 6 lateral spines.

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