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Table 3 Identified blood hosts per Culicoides species and location

From: Species diversity, host preference and arbovirus detection of Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in south-eastern Serbia

Culicoides species

Cow

Goat

Sheep

Blackbird

Human

C. achrayi

1

C. circumscriptus

C. fascipennis

31

7

1

C. festivipennis

1

C. furcillatus

2

1

C. lupicaris

4

2

C. newsteadi

1

C. obsoletus

5

7

1

C. obsoletus/scoticus

0

2

1

C. pallidicornis

2

C. picturatus

7

1

C. punctatus

4

C. salinarius

1

C. scoticus

1

18

2

C. subfasciipennis

5

1

Culicoides spp.a

33

9

1

Total

96

47

2

1

6

Total per location A

96

2

1

4

Total per location B

0

45

2

2

  1. aIndividual insects which were morphologically confirmed to be Culicoides, but species identification could not be concluded by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry and/or PCR/sequencing