关键词: 双翅目, 蠓科, 伪盐库蠓, 雄虫

Abstract: Newly found male Culicoides pseudosalinarius was described during the specimens identification of genus Culicoides in Ningxia. The specimens were deposited in the Shenyang Command Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Culicoides pseudosalinarius Chu, 1981(♀) Male (Fig.1): Wing length 1.04(0.91-1.01)mm, width 0.37(0.35-0.38)mm, costa ratio(CR) 0.50(0.48-0.51), n=5. No pubescence between ommatidia; sensilla coeloconica of antenna on 3, 13-14 segments, antennal ratio(AR) 1.03(1.00-1.06, n=5); third segment of palpus with sensory pit, palpus ratio(PR) 3.36(3.13-3.57, n=5). Wing with 11 pale spots, wing with macrotrichia, but basal cell without macrotrichia. 5 apical bristles on the tibia of backlegs, and the second one was the longest. Ninth sternum with wide camber concave, ventral membrane with a few microscopic spicules; Back-margin of ninth tergites flat, and mid-part with "V" concave; arch height of aedeagus was four-fifth of total length gonapophyses separation. Specimens: There were 3♂3♀ captured by insect net. 2♂ were collected in Yinchuan on 17 August 1980, and others were collected in Zhongning county on 15 July 1975.