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Table 4 Data on Culicoides sampled during a non-epizootic period in Alabama from June-November, 2016

From: Field data implicating Culicoides stellifer and Culicoides venustus (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) as vectors of epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus

Species

Culicoides sampled

EHDV(+) pools/Pools screened

Mean pool size

C. arboricola

722

0/16

5.5

C. crepuscularis

3

0/1

1

C. debilipalpis

88

0/5

2.2

C. guttipennis

28

0/2

1

C. haematopotus

512

0/17

4.9

C. hinmani

23

0/2

2

C. nanus

18

0/1

1

C. obsoletus/sanguisuga

78

0/1

3

C. paraensis

132

0/5

1.2

C. stellifer

4,775

0/42

11.6

C. venustus

99

1/5

3

C. villosipennis

337

0/7

4.3

Total

6815

1/104

3.4

  1. Notes: Culicoides were collected using CDC miniature light traps at the Piedmont Research Unit of the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station. Note that only a subset of the midges sampled were screened for EHDV