Table 1.

Morphometry of sporozoites of two Haemoproteus species in the biting midges Culicoides impunctatus and Culicoides nubeculosus

Feature	Measurementsa
	H. noctuae		H. syrnii
	C. nubeculosus	C. impunctatus	C. nubeculosus
	N = 21	N = 16	N = 15
Length	9.3–13.2 (11.4 ± 1.0)	9.3–14.1 (12.3 ± 1.5)	6.3–9.4 (7.8 ± 0.9)
Width	1.0–1.4 (1.1 ± 0.1)	0.8–1.5 (1.2 ± 0.1)	0.9–1.5 (1.2 ± 0.2)
Area	8.2–13.7 (11.3 ± 1.3)	8.5–14.3 (12.1 ± 1.2)	5.2–9.6 (7.6 ± 1.3)
Area of nucleus	0.8–1.6 (1.2 ± 0.2)	0.6–1.8 (1.3 ± 0.3)	0.8–1.7 (1.2 ± 0.3)

^aAll measurements are given in micrometers. Minimum and maximum values are provided, followed in parentheses by the arithmetic mean and standard deviation