Culicoides biting midges are small, haemotophagous insects that play a critical role as vectors in the transmission of bluetongue virus, an orbivirus that adversely affects ruminant livestock. Their ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Infection of domestic ruminants with bluetongue virus (BTV) is widespread in the Sudan but there are no records of vector species of ...

The larva and pupa of Culicoides bambusicola are redescribed and illustrated, including photomicrographies, based on the examination with both Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and phase-contrast ...

Researchers from the Calcutta-headquartered Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) have identified 23 species of blood-sucking flies belonging to the Culicoides genus in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, ...

Researchers from the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) have identified 23 species of blood-sucking flies, 13 of them recorded for the first time in the country, in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.