Table 1.

Colonization of Culicoides species worldwide.

Species	Autogeny recorded?	Wing length (mm)	Facultative mating	BTV vector status	Status of colonies?	References to colonization techniques
C. sonorensis	No	1.2	Yes	Proven	Extant	Boorman (1974), Hunt and Schmidtmann (2005), Jones, 1957, Jones, 1960, Jones, 1966 and Jones and Schmidtmann (1980)
C. nubeculosus	No	2.4	Yes	No	Extant	Boorman (1974) and Megahed (1956)
C. riethi	Yes	1.8	Yes	No	Discontinued	Boorman (1974)
C. furens	Yes	0.9	No	No	Discontinued	Koch and Axtell (1978) and Linley (1968)
C. guttipennis	No	1.3	Yes	No	Discontinued	Gazeau and Messersmith (1970) and Hair and Turner (1966)
C. arakawae	No	1.1	Yes	No	Discontinued	Sun (1974)
C. melleus	Yes	1.1	Yes	No	Failed	Koch and Axtell (1978)
C. hollensis	Yes	1.4	Yes	No	Discontinued	Koch and Axtell (1978)
C. oxystoma	No	1.0	Yes	Potential	Discontinued	Sun (1974)
C. wisconsinensis	Yes	1.2	Yes	No	Discontinued	Mullens and Schmidtmann (1981)
C. impunctatus	Yes	1.3	Yes	No	Failed	Carpenter (2001) and Hill (1947)
C. imicola	No	0.9	Yes	Proven	Failed	Veronesi et al. (2009)
C. obsoletus	No	1.2	Unknown	Proven	Failed	Boorman (1985)
C. insignis	No	1.1	Unknown	Proven	Not attempted	–
C. brevitarsis	No	0.8	No	Proven	Failed	Campbell (1974)