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Table 3 Culicoides species captured between July 2015 and April 2016 with CDC-light traps in households from the municipalities of the Araçatuba (São Paulo, Brazil) study area summed across all arms

From: Significant reduction in abundance of peridomestic mosquitoes (Culicidae) and Culicoides midges (Ceratopogonidae) after chemical intervention in western São Paulo, Brazil

Species

♂ + ♀

%

C. leopoldoi

311

6740

7057

61.5

C. limai

314

1563

1877

16.4

C. insignis

72

1391

1463

12.8

C. venezuelensis

31

294

325

2.8

C. pusillus

29

220

249

2.2

C. cf. filarifera

29

176

205

1.8

C. lutzi

10

132

142

1.3

C. foxi

16

90

106

0.9

C. debilipalpis

1

12

13

0.1

C. paraensis

1

7

8

< 0.1

C. fernandoi

1

4

5

< 0.1

C. gavaldoni

0

2

2

< 0.1

C. peruvianus

0

1

1

< 0.1

Culicoides sp. 1b

0

1

1

< 0.1

Culicoides sp. 2 b

0

1

1

< 0.1

Damaged

1

8

9

< 0.1

Total

816

10,648

11,464

 
  1. aCulicoides cf. filarifer includes a group of nearly indistinguishable species with consistent morphological features of Cu. filarifer and/or Cu. ocumarensis
  2. bInsufficient numbers of Culicoides spp. 1 and 2 impeded species determination