Table 1.
Numbers of Culicoides collected over 12 nights using four trapping methods
| Species1 | Total No. | Rank species | No. Culicoides collected with | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drop trap2 | Direct aspiration | Sticky cover trap | UV-light/suction trap | ||||||||||||||||
| F | M | No. F | Parity | No. E | No. M | No. F | Parity | No. E | No. F | Parity | No. E | No. G | No. F | Parity | No. E | No. G | No. M | ||
| C. brunnicans | 313 | 6 | 1 | 153 | 0.48 | 49 | 4 | 36 | 0.69 | 1 | 69 | 0.39 | 7 | 55 | 0.67 | 2 | |||
| C. obsoletus | 75 | 2 | 22 | 0.86 | 15 | 14 | 0.43 | 3 | 39 | 0.54 | |||||||||
| C. dewulfi | 46 | 1 | 3 | 27 | 0.44 | 14 | 0.43 | 1 | 1.00 | 4 | 0.25 | 1 | |||||||
| C. scoticus | 27 | 4 | 8 | 0.13 | 1 | 5 | 0.40 | 4 | 0.25 | 10 | 0.00 | ||||||||
| C. punctatus | 16 | 5 | 2 | 0.50 | 3 | 1.00 | 1 | 11 | 0.55 | ||||||||||
| C. vexans | 15 | 6 | 9 | 0.89 | 3 | 2 | 1.00 | 3 | 1.00 | 2 | 1 | 1.00 | |||||||
| C. achrayi | 10 | 7 | 2 | 0.50 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0.57 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| C. chiopterus | 6 | 8 | 2 | 0.00 | 2 | 1.00 | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | 1.00 | |||||||||
| C. subfasciipennis | 5 | 9 | 5 | 0.80 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| C. pulicaris | 2 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 0.50 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| C. picturatus | 1 | 11 | 1 | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||
| C. circumscriptus | 1 | 11 | 1 | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||
| C. santonicus | 1 | 11 | 1 | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||
| C. shaklawensis | 1 | 11 | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| C. simulator | 1 | 11 | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| C. lupicaris | 1 | 11 | 1 | 0.00 | |||||||||||||||
| C. clastrieri | 1 | 11 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| Obsoletus Complex | 2 | 11 | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | 0.00 | |||||||||||||
| Culicoides sp. | 2 | 1 | 0.00 | 1 | 0.00 | ||||||||||||||
| Total | 525 | 9 | 232 | 70 | 4 | 74 | 4 | 83 | 2 | 8 | 136 | 1 | 4 | 5 | |||||
1 For the sake of clarity, 0 were not quoted.
2 F: females; M: males; E: engorged; G: gravide. Parity rate is No. parous/No. females.