An updated checklist of the culicoides latreille (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) of Sardinia (Italy), and seasonality in proven and potential vectors for bluetongue virus (BTV)

Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 403-416

  Foxi, Cipriano ^a   Pinna, Marco ^b   Monteys, Victor Sarto I ^b   Delrio, Gavino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^b GENERALITAT DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

biting midges; Culicoides imicola; newsteadi; obsoletus; pulicaris; punctatus; scoticus; seasonal abundance; species composition

Indexed keywords

BLUETONGUE VIRUS; BOS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CHIRONOMIDAE; CULICOIDES CIRCUMSCRIPTUS; CULICOIDES DERISOR; CULICOIDES IMICOLA; CULICOIDES LATREILLE; CULICOIDES NEWSTEADI; CULICOIDES OBSOLETUS; CULICOIDES SCOTICUS; CULICOIDES SUBFAGINEUS; CULICOIDES SUBMARITIMUS; DIPTERA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 81755187710     PISSN: 00138797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4289/0013-8797.113.4.403     Document Type: Article

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