Culicoides leucostictus Kieffer, 1911

El-Hawagry, Magdi S., El-Azab, Salah El-Din A., Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S. & Al Dhafer, Hathal M., 2020, Biting midges of Egypt (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), Biodiversity Data Journal 8, pp. 52357-52357 : 52357

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scientific name	Culicoides leucostictus Kieffer, 1911
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Culicoides leucostictus Kieffer, 1911 [ Kieffer 1911b: 340]. Type locality: Seychelles.

Culicoides praetermissus Carter, Ingram and Macfie, 1920 [ Carter et al. 1920: 240]. Type locality: Ghana.

Culicoides distinctipennis var. egypti Macfie, 1924 [ Macfie 1924: 66]. Type locality: Egypt (Nile at Assiout).

Culicoides pharao Kieffer, 1925 [ Kieffer 1925c: 259]. Type locality: Egypt (Maadi).

Distribution

AF: Widespread. PA: Cyprus, Egypt, Israel.

Local distribution in Egypt: Eastern Desert: Ismailia (Moascar). Lower Nile Valley & Delta: Maadi. Upper Nile Valley: Assiout, Minya. Western Desert: Wadi El-Natroun.

Dates of collection in Egypt: October to April.