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Table 1 Total number of Culicoides specimens identified in 33 counties in Romania

From: Species composition and relative abundance of the genus Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in Romania

Subgenus

Species

No. of specimens (%)

Avaritia

C. obsoletus (Meigen)

35,600 (59.3)

C. scoticus Downes & Kettle

C. dewulfi Goetghebuer

143 (0.2)

C. chiopterus (Meigen)

6 (0.01)

Culicoides

C. punctatus (Meigen)

10,080 (16.8)

C. newsteadi Austen

3181 (5.3)

C. pulicaris (Linnaeus)

854 (1.4)

C. lupicaris Downes & Kettle

987 (1.6)

C. pulicaris/C. lupicaris

324 (0.5)

C. fagineus Edwards/C. impunctatus Goetghebuer

301 (0.5)

C. bysta Sarvašová, Kočisová, Candolfi & Mathieu

131 (0.2)

C. flavipulicaris Dzhafarov

2 (0.003)

Monoculicoides

C. nubeculosus (Meigen)/C. riethi Kieffer/C. puncticollis (Becker)

467 (0.8)

C. stigma (Meigen)/C. parroti Kieffer

6 (0.01)

Sensiculicoides

Festivipennis taxaa

1370 (2.2)

Beltranmyia

C. circumscriptus Kieffer

216 (0.4)

 

other Culicoides spp.

5877 (9.8)

 

Culicoides spp.b

461 (0.8)

  1. aFestivipennis taxa: species such as C. festivipennis Kieffer, C. cataneii Clastrier, C. gejgelensis Dzhafarov
  2. bNot identified (i.e. specimens broken, with faded wings) and considered as Culicoides spp