Culicoides Latreille and Leptoconops Skuse biting midges of the southwestern United States with emphasis on the Canyonlands of southeastern Utah (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) Author Phillips, Robert A. 2962 Desert Road Moab, UT 84532 USA text Insecta Mundi 2022 2022-01-28 2022 907 1 214 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.6391684 1942-1354 6391684 CBD29188-143B-44DF-BE21-1654D50D8621 Leptoconops ( Leptoconops ) mohavensis Wirth and Atchley Leptoconops ( Leptoconops ) mohavensis Wirth and Atchley, 1973: 29 (male; fig. male genitalia, hind tibial comb, tarsomere 5, antenna; California ). Diagnosis. ( Table 13 ) Female unknown. Male brownish black, legs dark brown; eyes bare; palpal segment 3 sensilla in superficial excavation wider than deep; hind tibial comb with four spines; flagellomere 13 ~2.2× longer than 12; tergite 9 evenly tapering to base of stout widely separated apicolateral processes, which are 2–3× longer than wide and separated by a distance about equal to their length; aedeagal sclerites separate, apically pointed; distal sclerite of paramere ~6× longer than wide, apical portion bent ~90° meso-ventrally. Distribution. The only record of this species is of three males collected with “suction trap” at Needles, San Bernardino County, California , 19 May 1965 by M. S. Mulla. Its collection in the Mojave Desert along the Colorado River at 150 m elevation indicates it may also occur in the lower and warmer areas of Arizona and Utah . Biology. No other data are available. Remarks. No L . mohavensis were examined; see L . torrens remarks.