Culicoides huffi Causey

(PLATE 1D1–D3)

Culicoides huffi Causey, 1938: 406; Delfinado, 1961: 644; Lee, 1978: 54; Howarth, 1985: 82; Wirth & Hubert, 1989: 372; Gangopadhyay & Das Gupta, 1998: 129.

Materials examined. 2♀, 2♂, Habra, 28 August 1999, Coll. P.K. Chaudhuri.

Diagnosis (Modified after Wirth & Hubert, 1989). This species can be diagnosed by the following combination of characters like, bare, narrowly separated eyes; SCo on flagellomeres 1,3,5–8, proximal poststigmatic pale spot separated from the pale spot crossing the vein M1, anal cell with medially constricted distal pale spot, posterior lobe being large and broadly touching the margin. Males with aedeagus without any lateral process, parameres with low ventral lobes and fan-like expansion of parameres bearing 9 lateral spines.