Table 10. Culicoides species first reported in mainland Portugal and Azores archipelago and their presence in other European and Mediterranean countries.
| Species | Female | Male | Region of Portugal | Number of specimens found | Other Countries3 | ||
| SEC/MC | CEC | NEC | |||||
| C. (Culicoides) lupicaris (Downes & Kettle, 1952) | X | Mainland Portugal | 1 1 | X | X | X | |
| C. (Culicoides) subfagineus (Delécolle & Ortega, 1998) | X | Mainland Portugal | 10 1 | X | |||
| C. (Silvaticulicoides) picturatus (Kremer & Déduit, 1961) | X | Mainland Portugal | 23 1 | X | X | X | |
| C. (Synhelea) semimaculatus (Clastrier, 1958) | X | Mainland Portugal | 1 1 | X | X | ||
| C. alazanicus (Dzhafarov, 1961) (syn. C. musilator) | X | X | Mainland Portugal | 16 1 | X | X | X |
| C. santonicus (Callot, Kremer, Rault & Bach, 1968) | X | X | Mainland Portugal | 154 1 | X | ||
| C. (Culicoides) deltus (Edwards, 1939) | X | Mainland Portugal | 3 1 | X | X | X | |
| C. simulator (Edwards, 1939) | X | Mainland Portugal | 2 1 | X | X | X | |
| C. baharainensis (Boorman, 1989) | X | X | Mainland Portugal | 2 1 | X | ||
| C. (Beltranmyia) circumscriptus (Kieffer, 1918) | X | X | Azores archipelago | 784 2 | X | X | X |
| C. (Culicoides) newsteadi (Austen, 1921) | X | X | Azores archipelago | 247 2 | X | X | X |
| C. (Avaritia) obsoletus (Meigen, 1818) | X | X | Azores archipelago | 11 * 2 | X | X | X |
| C. (Avaritia) scoticus (Downes & Kettle, 1952) | X | X | Azores archipelago | 19 * 2 | X | X | X |
Syn. – Synonymy;
Since the first specimen identified until the beginning of November 2010;
Since the first specimen until July 2011;
From a total of 29844 midges belonging to the Obsoletus Group, where females of C. obsoletus s.s., C. scoticus, C. chiopterus and C. dewulfi are included. SEC/MC – South European and Mediterranean Countries (Portuguese mainland; Spain; Andorra; France; Corsica; Italy; Sicily; Greek mainland; Croatia; Bulgaria; Morocco; Algeria; Tunisia; Cyprus; North Aegean Islands; Dodecanese Islands; Turkey); CEC – Central European Countries (Netherlands; Belgium; Germany; Switzerland; Austria; Romania; Czech Republic; Slovakia; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Ukraine; Poland; Romania; Hungary; Central Russia); NEC – North European Countries [Belarus; Estonia; United Kingdom; Ireland (incl. North Ireland); Sweden; Denmark; Norwegian mainland; Lithuania; Latvia; Northwest Russia].