Description of Culicoides paradoxalis sp. nov. from France and Portugal (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)

Zootaxa

Volumn 3745, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 243-256

  Ramilo, David ^a   Garros, Claire ^b   Mathieu, Bruno ^c   Benedet, Christophe ^b   Allène, Xavier ^b   Silva, Elisabete ^a   Alexandre Pires, Graça ^a   Da Fonseca, Isabel Pereira ^a   Carpenter, Simon ^d   Rádrová, Jana ^e   Delécolle, Jean Claude ^c  

^a FACULDADE DE MEDICINA VETERINÁRIA   (Portugal)

^b CIRAD   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^d INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

^e CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Biting midges; Culicoides; Cytochrome oxidase I; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ARTICLE; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PORTUGAL;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMALS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PORTUGAL;

EID: 84889580793     PISSN: 11755326     EISSN: 11755334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3745.2.4     Document Type: Article

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