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CulicoidesBiting Midges: Their Role as Arbovirus Vectors
Annual Review of Entomology, 2000▪ Abstract Culicoides biting midges are among the most abundant of haematophagous insects, and occur throughout most of the inhabited world. Across this broad range they transmit a great number of assorted pathogens of human, and domestic and wild animals, but it is as vectors of arboviruses, and particularly arboviruses of domestic livestock, that ...
P S, Mellor, J, Boorman, M, Baylis
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Biting midges (Ceratopogonidae)
1993The Ceratopogonidae form a family of small nematocerous flies, usually less than 3 or 4 mm in length. They are closely related to the Chironomidae, the non-biting midges, but can be distinguished from them by the presence of biting mouthparts in the female, the wing venation and by the short fore legs (Fig. 7.1). They are best known as ′biting midges′ (
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The Biting Midge of the West Highlands: Fifty Years of Research
Scottish Medical Journal, 1996The biting midge of the West Highlands belongs to the family Ceratopogonidae and approximately 150 species are known to exist in Britain. All of the flies are of minute size and slender build with wings which fold over the back. The females have biting mouthparts including a needle sharp proboscis with scissor type mandibles. The males do not bite. The
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Culicoides Biting Midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) of Kenya
Journal of Medical Entomology, 1990The 55 known Culicoides species of Kenya, including the adult females of 52 species and the adult males of 46 species, are described. New taxa described for Kenya include C. isechnoensis n. sp. (subgenus Meijerehelea), C. karenensis n. sp. (similis group), and C. nairobiensis n. sp. (inornatipennis group). Three new species of the C.
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Monthly bulletin of the Ministry of Health and the Public Health Laboratory Service, 2010
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Clinical and Histopathologic Correlation of Midge Bites
Archives of Dermatology, 1981• Many species of flies viciously bite humans and animals. I had the opportunity to observe such bites by the gnatLeptoconops torrensduring a recent epidemic that occurred in an inland desert area of California. The bite may produce an urticarial wheal, but, more characteristically, it induces formation of a hard, indolent, pruritic papule.
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Arthropod Assault from Biting Midges
The Journal of Pediatrics, 2013Andrew C, Krakowski, Baran, Ho
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ATTACKS ON CATTLE BY MOSQUITOES AND BITING MIDGES
Australian Veterinary Journal, 1968H A, Standfast, A L, Dyce
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