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
)
belkini
Wirth and Atchley
(
Fig. 15
)
Leptoconops
(
Holoconops
)
belkini
Wirth and Atchley, 1973: 37
(key; female, male; fig. female head, wing, hind tibial comb, genitalia, hind tarsomere 5, palpus, male genitalia, antenna;
California
).
Diagnosis.
(
Table 13
) Entirely dark brown to black; stigma pale, often indistinct; eyes bare; palpal segment 3 sensory pit as deep as wide, broadening internally on female (as in
Fig.
32
L
.
foulki
); hind tibial comb with four spines; claw without basal tooth. Female: antenna with 11 flagellomeres; clypeus with four setae, median pair about as far apart from each other as from corresponding lateral setae; hind tarsomere 3 ~1.5× longer than 5; two ovoid spermathecae, vestigial third absent; cerci>3× longer than wide (as in
Fig. 1
). Male: tergite 9 with distal shoulders abruptly narrowed to base of adjacent apicolateral processes; aedeagal sclerites longer than any paramere sclerite,>0.3 as long as gonocoxite; strongly sclerotized lobe in median portion of tergite 9 dorsal to aedeagus.
Distribution.
California
,
Arizona
.
Adult behavior.
Females and males have been collected on the face of and swarming around a human, but not biting (
Wirth and Atchley 1973
); and
Mullens and Dada (1992a)
collected
L
.
belkini
from domestic rabbit (
Oryctolagus cuniculus
), Japanese quail (
Coturnix japonica
), and bighorn sheep (
Ovis canadensis nelsoni
Merriam
,
Bovidae
).