Table 1.
Region | Country | Biting midges | Black flies | Key references |
---|---|---|---|---|
North America | Mexico | Culicoides furens | Biagi et al.31 | |
Central America | Panama | Simulium sanguineum | Petersen et al.40 | |
Caribbean | Haiti | C. furens, C. barbosai | Lowrie et al.27–29 | |
Leptoconops bequaerti | ||||
St. Vincent | C. furens, C. paraensis? | Buckley25,26 | ||
Trinidad | C. phlebotomus | Nathan30,32 | ||
South America | Argentina | C. paraensis | Nathan and Wygodzinsky42 | |
C. lahillei, C. paraensis | S. exiguum | Shelley and Coscarón43 | ||
C. debilipalpis, C. lahillei, C. paraensis | Veggiani-Aybar et al.44 | |||
Brazil | S. amazonicum, S. argentiscutum | Cerqueira34 | ||
S. oyapockense s.l. or S. roraimense | Shelley et al.35–37 | |||
Colombia | C. insinuatus, C. caprilesi? | S. amazonicum, S. argentiscutum | Tidwell et al.24,33 | |
S. sanguineum | ||||
Guyana | S. oyapockense s.l. | Nathan et al.41 | ||
Suriname | C. guttatus? | Bruijning96 | ||
Venezuela | S. oyapockense s.l., S. guyanensis | Yarzábal et al. and González38,39 |
Modified from Shelley and Coscarón.43