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A new Blood-sucking Midge from Singapore

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

J. W. S. Macfie
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Extract

♀. Eyes bare. Proboscis long, the stylets strongly chitinised for blood-sucking. Antennae with scanty, short hairs; the last five segments elongated. Without thoracic pits. Wings with both microtrichia and (a few) macrotrichia; a single radial cell; and the fourth vein petiolate. Legs with femora and fifth tarsal segments unarmed; tarsal segments sub-cylindrical. Claws small, equal. Empodium well developed. Spermathecae two. Male not known.

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Original Articles
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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 15 , Issue 4 , April 1925 , pp. 349 - 351
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1925

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References

* This measurement is taken from the anterior margin of the thorax to the tip of the abdomen of specimens mounted in pure carbolic acid.

† The unit referred to is 3.7 μ.