Development and validation of IIKC: an interactive identification key for Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) females from the Western Palaearctic region

Table 2 For each species used for the validation, number of successful identifications, number of descriptors used by end user when the identification was correct, and theoretical number of descriptors following strictly the list of the Xper original sort

Species	Nb of Success	Users’ step				Nb Xper step
Species	Nb of Success	Min	Mean	Max	Sd	Nb Xper step
C. begueti	3	8	9.3	10	0.9	7*
C. brunnicans	3	3	6	9	2.4	6
C. cameroni	3	3	6.3	9	2.5	5*
C. chiopterus	3	4	6.3	10	2.6	7
C. circumscriptus	4	5	6	8	1.2	5*
C. dewulfi	4	9	9.7	11	0.8	10
C. fascipennis	2	9	9.5	10	0.5	8*
C. fascipennis	1	9	9	9	0	8*
C. festivipennis	4	5	7	10	1.9	6*
C. haranti	3	6	7.3	9	1.2	7*
C. heliophilus	3	7	8	10	1.4	7*
C. imicola	5	4	5.8	8	1.5	6*
C. kibunensis	1	11	11	11	0	9*
C. longipennis	3	5	8.7	11	2.6	7*
C. lupicaris	2	6	7.5	9	1.5	7*
C. minutissimus	3	3	4	5	0.8	5
C. montanus	5	5	6.8	9	1.3	9
C. newsteadi	4	6	8.5	14	3.2	7*
C. nubeculosus	6	3	3.7	5	0.7	5
Obsoletus complex	5	9	9.4	11	0.8	10
Obsoletus complex	3	7	8.3	10	1.2	10
C. paradisionensis	1	8	8	8	0	7*
C. parroti	6	3	4.2	5	0.9	5
C. picturatus	1	7	7	7	0	6*
C. picturatus	3	7	8.7	10	1.2	7*
C. poperinghensis	1	8	8	8	0	7*
C. pulicaris	5	6	7	8	0.9	7*
C. punctatus	5	6	8.4	15	3.3	7*
C. riebi	1	9	9	9	0	8*
C. riethi	3	6	7	8	0.8	6*
C. riouxi	5	4	4.8	5	0.4	6
C. saevus	6	2	3	4	0.8	4
C. segnis	5	3	6.2	8	1.9	6*
C. sejfadinei	5	3	3	3	0	6
C. semimaculatus	6	3	7	8	1.8	6*
C. stigma	3	4	4.3	5	0.5	4*
C. vexans	3	4	7	11	2.9	5*

* mentioned the 25 out of the 37 specimens (68%) would have been correctly identified quicker than following the user’s choices.