Collection of Culicoides spp. with four light trap models during different seasons in the Balearic Islands

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 195, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 150-156

  Del Rio R ^a   Monerris, M ^a   Miquel, M ^a   Borras D ^a   Calvete, C ^b   Estrada, R ^c   Lucientes, J ^c   Miranda, M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

^b Unidad de Sanidad Vegetal   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Culicoides imicola; Obsoletus group; Trap collections

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULICOIDES; EQUIPMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIGHT TRAP; MINI CDC TRAP; NIGHT; NONHUMAN; ONDERSTEPOORT TRAP; PIRBRIGHT TRAP; PROCEDURES; RIEB TRAP; SAMPLING; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPAIN; SPECIES COMPOSITION; ANIMAL; BLUETONGUE; BLUETONGUE ORBIVIRUS; BOVINAE; CERATOPOGONIDAE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEVICES; DISEASE CARRIER; DOMESTIC SHEEP; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; LIGHT; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; SHEEP; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY; ZOOLOGY;

BLUETONGUE VIRUS; BOS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CHIRONOMIDAE; CULICOIDES IMICOLA; DIPTERA; OVIS ARIES;

ANIMALS; BLUETONGUE; BLUETONGUE VIRUS; CATTLE; CERATOPOGONIDAE; ENTOMOLOGY; FEMALE; INSECT VECTORS; LIGHT; MALE; SEASONS; SHEEP; SHEEP, DOMESTIC; SPAIN;

EID: 84878437731     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: 18732550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2013.02.015     Document Type: Article

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