Table 1.

omp conventional PCR assay results for Rickettsia‐positive Culicoides sp. under study, given by subgenus, species, location, date and sex.

				Proportion of Rickettsia‐positive samples (n) [95% confidence interval]
Subgenus	Culicoides species	Location	Year of collection	Females	Males
Beltranmyia	C. salinarius	Unknown site, Sweden	2009	1 (2) [0.2–1]
Culicoides	C. impunctatus	Torsås, Sweden	2008	0.3 (20) [0.13–0.54]
		Bala, UK	2012	0.81 (17) [0.5–0.92]	0.5 (14) [0.27–0.73]
		Kielder, UK	2016	0.75 (16) [0.47–0.92]	0.86 (7) [0.42–0.99]
	C. newsteadi N1 a , *	Site 2, Corsica	2015	0.5 (2) [0.1–0.91]
	C. newsteadi N2 a , *	Site 2, Corsica	2015	1 (2) [0.2–1]
	C. newsteadi N3 b , *	Unknown site, Sweden	2008–2010	1 (6) [0.52–1]
	C. newsteadi N5 b , *	Wirral, UK	2015	1 (13) [0.72–1]
	C. pulicaris * (haplotype 1)	Canterbury, UK	2014	1 (2) [0.2–1]
		Hereford, UK	2014	1 (1) [0.05–1]
		Luton, UK	2014	1 (1) [0.05–1]
		Unknown site, Sweden	2008–2010	1 (6) [0.52–1]
		Wirral, UK	2015	1 (32) [0.87–1]
		Wolverhampton, UK	2013	1 (11) [0.68–1]	1 (4) [0.4–1]
		Worcester, UK	2014	1 (6) [0.52–1]
	C. pulicaris * (haplotype 2)	Site 2, Corsica	2015	1 (13) [0.72–1]
Monoculicoides	C. riethi	Ljungbyholm, Sweden	2010	1 (1) [0.05–1]
	C. stigma	Unknown site, Sweden	2008	1 (3) [0.31–1]
Oecacta	C. duddingstoni	Bara, Sweden	2008	1 (4) [0.4–1]
		Unknown site, Sweden	2008–2010	1 (3) [0.31–1]

a. Culicoides newsteadi haplotypes are designated by Pagès et al. (2009).

b. Culicoides newsteadi haplotypes are designated by Ander et al. (2013).

*C. newsteadi and C. pulicaris haplotypes are defined as separate species as their COI barcodes have < 81% identity between each other.