Culicoides bancrofti

Bellis, Glenn & Dyce, Alan, 2012, Redescription of the adults of Culicoides bancrofti Lee and Reye and C. hornsbyensis Lee and Reye (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), Zootaxa 3566, pp. 51-60 : 54

Key to males of species of the Bancrofti group

2. pale spot in cell r5 of wing ovoid and distant from the wing margin (fig 4); SCo absent from flagellomeres 2–4 (fig 14), apicolateral processes on hypopygium about as long as basal width (fig 22).................................. bancrofti

– pale spot in cell r5 of wing elongate and approaching the apex of the cell (fig 6); SCo present on flagellomeres 2–4 (fig 15), apicolateral processes on hypopygium about twice as long as basal width (fig 25)......................... hornsbyensis