Culicoides mukerjii Majumdar & Das Gupta

(PLATE 1E1–E3)

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

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.