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 females of species of the Bancrofti group

1. pale spot in cell r5 of wing ovoid and distant from the wing margin (fig 3); SCo distribution 1,9–13; basal flagellomeres much longer than wide and constricted medially (fig 11, 13)................................................... bancrofti

– pale spot in cell r5 of wing elongate and approaching the apex of the cell (fig 5); SCo distribution 1–13; basal flagellomeres little longer than wide and not constricted medially (fig 12).......................................... hornsbyensis