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Table 3 Current Irish Culicoides species list (n = 31) and species confirmed in the present study (n = 20), including one species recorded in Ireland for the first time

From: Culicoides species composition and abundance on Irish cattle farms: implications for arboviral disease transmission

Genus

Species

Authority

Confirmed

Culicoides (Avaritia)

chiopterus

Meigen, 1830

dewulfi

Goetghebuer, 1936

obsoletus

Meigen, 1818

scoticus

Downes & Kettle, 1952

Culicoides (Beltranmyia)

circumscriptus

Kieffer, 1918

salinarius

Kieffer, 1914

Culicoides (Culicoides)

delta

Edwards, 1939

grisescens

Edwards, 1939

 

impunctatus

Goetghebuer, 1920

newsteadi

Austen, 1921

pulicaris

Linnaeus, 1758

punctatus

Meigen, 1804

Culicoides (Monoculicoides)

nubeculosus

Meigen, 1830

parroti

Kieffer, 1922

 

riethi

Kieffer, 1914

stigma

Meigen, 1818

Culicoides (Oecacta)

 

  sensu Szadziewski et al., 2016

brunnicans

Edwards, 1939

vexans

Campbell & Pelham-Clinton, 1960

 

duddingstoni

Kettle & Lawson, 1955

 

festivipennis

Kieffer, 1914

heliophilus

Edwards, 1921

 

kibunensis

Tokunaga, 1937

 

pictipennis

Staeger, 1839

 

poperinghensis

Callot, Kremer & Paradis, 1962

 

  Unspecified

cameroni

Staeger, 1839

a

furcillatus

Goetghebuer, 1953

 

reconditus

Campbell & Pelham-Clinton, 1960

segnis

Campbell & Pelham-Clinton, 1960

 

Culicoides (Silvaticulicoides)

achrayi

Kettle & Lawson, 1955

fascipennis

Staeger, 1839

pallidicornis

Kieffer, 1919

 
  1. aSpecies recorded for the first time in Ireland