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
(
Holoconops
)
andersoni
Clastrier and Wirth
Leptoconops
(
Holoconops
)
andersoni
Clastrier and Wirth, 1978: 35
(key; female; fig. female antenna, palpus, spermathecae;
California
).
Diagnosis.
(
Table 13
) Body blackish, femora and tibiae blackish, tarsomeres blackish except paler on ventral surface of fore tarsomere 1; palpal segment 3 sensory pit as deep as wide, broadening internally on female (as in
Fig.
11
L
.
knowltoni
); clypeus with four setae, median pair <0.5 as far apart from each other as from corresponding lateral setae; mid tarsomere 1 with at least one submedian spine. Female stigma posterior margin convex, distal tip rounded; antenna with 11 flagellomeres; flagellomere 11 without submedian black setae; flagellomere 4 dorsal hyaline sensory seta distal and medial to long black seta, out of axial alignment with corresponding sensory setae on flagellomeres 5–10 (as in
Fig.
30
L
.
sublettei
); hyaline sensory setae on flagellomeres 9–10 broadly separated; hind tarsomere 3>1.5× longer than 5; spermathecae ovoid, without caplike diverticulum; cerci>3× longer than wide (
Fig. 1
). Male unknown.
Distribution.
California
(Mendocino County).
Adult behavior.
Females have been collected from the ears of deer on 17 April and from a calf on 18 May near Hopland,
California
(
Clastrier and Wirth 1978
).
Remarks.
No
L
.
andersoni
were examined.