Update of the Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) species checklist from Algeria with 10 new records

Belkharchouche, Mounira; Berchi, Selima; Mathieu, Bruno; Rakotoarivony, Ignace; Duhayon, Maxime; Baldet, Thierry; Balenghien, Thomas

doi:10.1186/s13071-020-04335-4

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Table 2 Culicoides species list of Algeria

From: Update of the Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) species checklist from Algeria with 10 new records

Subgenus	Species	Additional records from our data	Proposed checklist	References
Avaritia Fox, 1955	Culicoides chiopterus Meigen, 1830	×	×	Present study
	Culicoides dewulfi Goetghebuer, 1936	×	×	Present study
	Culicoides imicola Kieffer, 1913		×	[28, 36, 38,39,40,41,42]
	Culicoides montanus Shakirzjanova, 1962		×	[39]
	Culicoides obsoletus Meigen, 1818		×	[22, 24, 25, 28, 36, 40,41,42]^a
	Culicoides scoticus Downes & Kettle, 1952		×	[28, 36, 41, 42]
Beltranmyia Vargas, 1953	Culicoides circumscriptus Kieffer, 1918		×	[25, 27, 28, 36, 40,41,42]
	Culicoides navaiae Lane, 1983	×	×	Present study
	Culicoides sphagnumensis Williams, 1955			[42]
Culicoides Latreille, 1809	Culicoides fagineus Edwards, 1939		×	[25, 41, 42]
	Culicoides grisescens Edwards, 1939	×	×	Present study
	Culicoides newsteadi Austen, 1921		×	[28, 36, 40,41,42]^b
	Culicoides paradoxalis Ramilo & Delécolle, 2013	×	×	Present study
	Culicoides pulicaris (Linnaeus, 1758)		×	[28, 41, 42]
	Culicoides punctatus (Meigen, 1804)		×	[28, 36, 41, 42]
Monoculicoides Khalaf, 1954	Culicoides parroti Kieffer, 1922		×	[22, 23, 36]
Monoculicoides Khalaf, 1954	Culicoides puncticollis (Becker, 1903)		×	[22, 23, 25, 28, 36, 40,41,42]^c
Oecacta Poey, 1853	Culicoides azerbajdzhanicus Dzhafarov, 1962		×	[28, 37]
	Culicoides corsicus Kremer, Leberre & Beaucournu-Saguez, 1971		×	[36]
	Culicoides longipennis Khalaf, 1957		×	[27, 36]
	Culicoides marcleti Callot, Kremer & Basset, 1968		×	[27, 28]
	Culicoides ravus de Meillon, 1936		×	[37]
	Culicoides sahariensis Kieffer, 1923		×	[23, 25, 28, 36, 40, 42]^d
	Culicoides santonicus Callot, Kremer, Rault & Bach, 1966		×	[28]
	Culicoides semimaculatus Clastrier, 1958		×	[26]
	Culicoides sergenti Kieffer, 1921		×	[21, 23, 28, 37]^e
	Culicoides truncorum Edwards, 1939			[42]
Pontoculicoides Remm, 1968	Culicoides saevus Kieffer, 1922		×	[22,23,24, 28, 36, 41, 42]
Pontoculicoides Remm, 1968	Culicoides sejfadinei Dzhafarov, 1958		×	[28]
Remmia Glukhova, 1977	Culicoides kingi Austen, 1912		×	[28, 37, 40,41,42]
Remmia Glukhova, 1977	Culicoides schultzei (Enderlein, 1908)		×	[25, 42]
Sensiculicoides Shevchenko, 1977	Culicoides begueti Clastrier, 1957		×	[25]
	Culicoides cataneii Clastrier, 1957		×	[25, 28, 36, 40]
	Culicoides clastrieri Callot, Kremer & Deduit, 1962		×	[39, 41, 42]
	Culicoides duddingstoni Kettle & Lawson, 1955		×	[42]
	Culicoides dzhafarovi Remm, 1967		×	[28]
	Culicoides festivipennis Kieffer, 1914		×	[36]
	Culicoides gejgelensis Dzhafarov, 1964		×	[27, 28, 36]
	Culicoides griseidorsum Kieffer, 1918		×	[28, 41, 42]
	Culicoides heteroclitus Kremer & Callot, 1965		×	[27, 28, 36]
	Culicoides jumineri Callot & Kremer, 1969		×	[28, 36, 42]
	Culicoides jurensis Callot, Kremer & Deduit, 1962			[42]
	Culicoides kibunensis Tokunaga, 1937		×	[27]^f
	Culicoides kurensis Dzhafarov, 1960		×	[36]
	Culicoides langeroni Kieffer, 1921		×	[28, 37, 40]
	Culicoides maritimus Kieffer, 1924		×	[28, 41, 42]
	Culicoides odiatus Austen, 1921		×	[28, 36]
	Culicoides pictipennis (Staeger, 1839)		×	[28, 41, 42]
	Culicoides poperinghensis Goetghebuer, 1953		×	[28]
	Culicoides pseudopallidus Khalaf, 1961		×	[27, 28, 36]
	Culicoides shaklawensis Khalaf, 1957	×	×	Present study
	Culicoides simulator Edwards, 1939	×	×	Present study
	Culicoides univittatus Vimmer, 1932	×	×	Present study
Silvaticulicoides Glukhova, 1977	Culicoides achrayi Kettle & Lawson, 1955	×	×	Present study
	Culicoides fascipennis (Staeger, 1839)		×	[36]
	Culicoides picturatus Kremer & Deduit, 1961	×	×	Present study
	Culicoides subfasciipennis Kieffer, 1919		×	[28]
Wirthomyia Vargas, 1973	Culicoides faghihi Navai, 1971		×	[28]
Miscellaneous unplaced species	Culicoides algeriensis Clastrier, 1957		×	[25]
	Culicoides foleyi Kieffer, 1922		×	[22]
	Culicoides nudipennis Kieffer, 1922		×	[22]
	Culicoides paolae Boorman, Mellor & Scaramozzino, 1996		×	[36]

^a Reported as Culicoides kabyliensis n. sp. Kieffer, 1922 in [22]
^b Reported as Culicoides halophilus Kieffer, 1924 in [40]
^c Reported as Culicoides distigma n. sp. Kieffer, 1922 and Culicoides donatieni n. sp. Kieffer, 1922 in [22]
^d Reported as Culicoides coluzzii Callot, Kremer & Bailly-Choumara, 1970 in [42]
^e Reported as Culicoides citrinellus n. sp. Kieffer, 1923 in [23]
^f Reported as Culicoides cubitalis Edwards, 1939 in [27]
References: [21] Kieffer (1921); [22] Kieffer (1922); [23] Kieffer (1923); [24] Goetghebuer (1939); [25] Clastrier (1957); [26] Clastrier (1958); [27] Callot et al. (1968); [28] Szadziewski (1984); [36] Baldet et al. (2003); [37] Baldet & Delécolle (2006); [38] Nolan et al. (2008); [39] Djerbal & Delécolle (2009); [41] Belkharchouche (2014); [42] Kabbout (2017); [40] Berrayah et al. (2020)

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