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Table 4 Overall engorgement rate of female Culicoides caught in the horse-baited trap at the five sampling sites (from July 2011 to October 2012) in the Niayes area of Senegal

From: Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) midges, the vectors of African horse sickness virus – a host/vector contact study in the Niayes area of Senegal

Species

Number of engorged females [total females]

Engorgement rate (%)

C. hortensis

4 [4]

100.0

C. milnei

4 [5]

80.0

C. bolitinos*

28 [36]

77.8

C. miombo*

6 [8]

75.0

C. imicola*

299 [465]

64.5

C. pseudopallidipennis*

3 [5]

60.0

C. austeni

85 [156]

54.5

C. moreli

16 [44]

36.4

C. oxystoma

7,943 [21,941]

36.2

C. enderleini

20 [99]

20.2

C. kingi

62 [308]

20.1

  1. *Species in the Imicola group; species in the Schultzei group; species in the Milnei group.
  2. Are listed only species from which at least one female was found engorged.