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THE IMMATURE STAGES OF SOME AUSTRALIAN CULICOIDES LATREILLE (DIPTERA: CERATOPOGONIDAE)

D. S. Kettle, M. M. Elson

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Abstract Descriptions are given of the third and fourth instar larvae and pupae of nine species of Australian Culicoides (C. angularis Lee and Reye, C. austropalpalis Lee and Reye, C. brevitarsis Kieffer, C. marksi Lee and Reye, C. marmoratus (Skuse), C. molestus (Skuse), C. narrabeenensis Lee and Reye (larval descriptions incomplete), C. subimmaculatus Lee and Reye and C. victoriae Macfie). Additional information is given on the larval setae of four other species of Culicoidini—C. gladysae Kettle, Elson and Dyce, C. interrogatus Lee and Reye, C. belkini Wirth and Arnaud and Paradasyhelea minuta Wirth and Lee. Keys are provided for fourth instar larvae and pupae of all 13 species.

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Key concepts: Ceratopogonidae, Biology, Larva, Instar, Pupa, Culicoides, Seta, Zoology