Table 1 Culicoides spp. collected during 20 nights comparative trapping in at site TN01 using light emitting diode (LED) Center for Disease Control (CDC) light-suction traps (mean number collected per night with range shown in parentheses

C. anophelis

9.5 (0–23)

0.1 (0–1)

0.1 (0–1)

0.1 (0–1)

0.2 (0–2)

9.7 (0–23)

19

99.0 (0–341)

4.6 (0–50)

4.7 (0–35)

–

1.1 (0–14)

5.5 (0–99)

19

C. brevitarsis

0.3 (0–2)

0.2 (0–1)

–

0.2 (0–1)

–

0.7 (0–2)

8

16.8 (0–122)

1.3 (0–11)

0.1 (0–1)

8.1 (0–74)

2.8 (0–25)

1.5 (0–122)

15

C. huffi

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

0.2 (0–5)

–

–

0.2 (0–5)

1

C. imicola

0.1 (0–4)

0.3 (0–1)

–

0.3 (0–2)

1.5 (0–14)

3.0 (0–14)

17

29.9 (0–136)

7.6 (0–63)

–

10.9 (0–84)

14.8 (0–52)

63.1 (0–136)

19

C. innoxius

0.1 (0–1)

–

–

–

–

0.1 (0–1)

1

0.3 (0–7)

0.4 (0–9)

–

0.9 (0–17)

–

5.3 (0–23)

8

C. oxystoma

156.3 (2–317)

45.6 (4–105)

1.2 (0–6)

60.5 (4–120)

37.6 (8–117)

301.2 (0–317)

20

2,537.5 (262–8,034)

248.3 (29–499)

12.9 (0–101)

608.1 (87–1,380)

473.5 (46–1,102)

3,880.3 (0–8,034)

20

C. peliliouensis

–

0.1 (0–1)

–

–

–

0.1 (0–1)

1

2.3 (0–31)

0.5 (0–10)

–

–

–

0.1 (0–31)

3

C. peregrinus

8.7 (0–27)

33.1 (4–95)

0.4 (0–4)

6.4 (0–22)

0.8 (0–4)

49.4 (0–95)

20

437.4 (65–1,898)

964.1 (66–3,265)

19.8 (0–175)

454 (15–2,366)

57.6 (0–452)

1,932.8 (0–3,265)

20