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Notes on African blood-sucking midges (Family Chironomidae, Sub-family Ceratopogoninae), with descriptions of new species

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

Ernest E. Austen
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The identity of Culicoides habereri, Becker, with C. grahamii, Austen, is conclusively established as the result of a comparison of the typical series of the former with the type and para-types of the latter, which are preserved in the British Museum (Natural History). For the opportunity of making this comparison and thus proving the synonymy given above, the present writer is indebted to Dr. Kurt Lampert, of the Königl. Naturaliensammlung, Stuttgart, where the original material of C. habereri is preserved; with the most obliging courtesy Dr. Lampert not only forwarded for comparison the typical series described by Becker, but also presented three para-types of C. habereri to our National Collection.

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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , March 1912 , pp. 99 - 108
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1912

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References

* For names and illustrations of colours see Ridgway, “A Nomenclature of Colors for Naturalists’ (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1886).Google Scholar

* Compare fig. 1 and the coloured figure of C. milnei in the author's ‘Illustrations of African Blood-Sucking Flies,’ Plate I, fig. 1 (1909).

* In one of the para-types the abdomen, in addition to being dirty waxen-white except at the posterior extremity, is distended and sac-like; another para-type shows the same peculiarity, though to a lesser degree.

* Zoologische und Anthropologische Ergebnisse einer Forscungsreise im Westlichen und Zentralen Südafrika, ausgeführt in den Jahren 1903–1905.…Drvon Schultze, Leonhard. Erster Band: zweite Lieferung. P. 459, Taf. xix, fig. 2 (Jena: Verlag von Gustav Fischer. 1908).Google Scholar