Diptera: Ceratopogonidae
An update of the Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) checklist for the Balkans
... Background: The prime significance of species belonging to the genus Culicoides Latreille, 1809 (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) is their ability to transmit viruses such as bluetongue virus (BTV) to wild and ...
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Vector competence of Culicoides sonorensis (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) to epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus serotype 7
... Abstract Background: Culicoides sonorensis Diptera: Ceratopogonidae is a vector of epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus EHDV serotypes 1 and 2 in North America, where these viruses are we[r] ...
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Field data implicating Culicoides stellifer and Culicoides venustus (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) as vectors of epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus
... Epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus (EHDV) is an Orbivirus of veterinary importance which occurs world- wide in susceptible hosts where competent Culicoides Latreille (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) vectors ...
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Description of Culicoides (Culicoides) bysta n sp , a new member of the Pulicaris group (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from Slovakia
... Abstract Background: Species of the genus Culicoides Latreille, 1809 Diptera: Ceratopogonidae are mainly known as vectors of arboviruses such as bluetongue BTV and Schmallenberg SBV.. Am[r] ...
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Community analysis of the abundance and diversity of biting midge species (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in three European countries at different latitudes
... Worldwide around 1400 species of Culicoides (biting midges, Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) have been de- scribed [1]. At present, the European Interactive Culicoides Key [2, 3] includes 110 species. A minority ...
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Insight on the larval habitat of Afrotropical Culicoides Latreille (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in the Niayes area of Senegal, West Africa
... Background: Certain biting midges species of the genus Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) are vectors of virus to livestock worldwide. Culicoides larval ecology has remained overlooked because of ...
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Blood feeding, susceptibility to infection with Schmallenberg virus and phylogenetics of Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from the United Kingdom
... (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) were suspected as the primary biological vectors of SBV prior to direct study of transmission in the field, due to their involvement in the BTV epidemic in northwestern Europe 5 ...
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Laboratory studies on the oviposition stimuli of Culicoides stellifer (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), a suspected vector of Orbiviruses in the United States
... (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) exert a significant impact on animal agriculture worldwide because they transmit bluetongue virus (BTV) and epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus (EHDV) to ...
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Species diversity, host preference and arbovirus detection of Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in south eastern Serbia
... Background: Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) is a genus of small biting midges (also known as “ no-see ums ” ) that currently includes 1368 described species. They are proven or suspected vectors for ...
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A new species of Stilobezzia (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from northern Argentina
... (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), is described and illustrated based on adult specimens collected in the Argentinian provinces of Chaco, Formosa and ...words. Diptera, Ceratopogonidae, Stilobezzia ...
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Does Culicoides spp (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) Not Suck Human Blood in Riparian Habitat of a National Park
... that Diptera is the most dominant group of insects with the most amounts; its sum is 51 families 100,018 individuals which is ...(Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) based on two separated reports of midge ...
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Picky eaters are rare: DNA based blood meal analysis of Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) species from the United States
... (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) are globally ubiquitous, ex- cept for New Zealand and Antarctica, and the group includes over 1400 described species [12, ...
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Update of the species checklist of Culicoides Latreille, 1809 biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) of Morocco
... (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) are responsible for the trans- mission of economically important viruses in animal production, most notably African horse sickness virus (AHSV), bluetongue virus (BTV), epizootic ...
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A new species of Dasyhelea from Brazilian Amazonas and the description of the male of D. paulistana (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)
... Abstract. A new species, Dasyhelea pseudopollinosa Díaz & Ronderos sp. nov., is described from Brazil, illustrated and photographed as pupae and male and female adults. The male of D. paulistana Forattini & ...
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Identity and diversity of blood meal hosts of biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae: Culicoides Latreille) in Denmark
... The rate of successful identification of blood meals in this study was comparatively low (76%, n = 307). In a pre- ceding study it was 90% (n = 128) [10]; Ninio et al. [9] had one of 91% (n = 157); Garros et al. [12] had ...
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Antennal and pupal sensilla of the sand fly Culicoides furens (Poey) (Diptera Ceratopogonidae)
... Abstract-By means of scanning and transmission electron microscopy, the arrange- ment and ultrastructure of the sensilla on the antennae and maxillary palps of the sand fly, Clilicoides [r] ...
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PCR identification of culicoid biting midges (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae) of the Obsoletus complex including putative vectors of bluetongue and Schmallenberg viruses
... Abstract Background: Biting midges of the Obsoletus species complex of the ceratopogonid genus Culicoides were assumed to be the major vectors of bluetongue virus BTV in northern and cen[r] ...
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Culicoides Latreille in the sun: faunistic inventory of Culicoides species (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in Mayotte (Comoros Archipelago, Indian Ocean)
... Ethiopia, Gambia, Kenya, Madagascar, Nigeria, Reunion Island, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe.. Angola, Cameroon, Congo, Egypt, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Madagascar[r] ...
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Spatial abundance and clustering of Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) on a local scale
... We found no significant spatial covariates determining the abundance of the studied species groups other than the distance to host animals and for the Pulicaris group this also included p[r] ...
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Gene discovery and differential expression analysis of humoral immune response elements in female Culicoides sonorensis (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)
... Nayduch D, Lee MB, Saski CA: The reference transcriptome of the adult female biting midge Culicoides sonorensis and differential gene expression profiling during teneral, blood, and sucr[r] ...
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