1. Abundance of biting midge species (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae, Culicoides spp.) on cattle farms in Korea
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Toh Kyung Kim, Mee Soon Kwon, Tae Uk Lee, You Chan Bae, Joon Yee Chung, and Jae-Ku Oem
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Veterinary medicine ,Time Factors ,Ceratopogonidae ,Short Communication ,Biting midge ,Cattle Diseases ,Population density ,Species Specificity ,Abundance (ecology) ,Republic of Korea ,medicine ,Animals ,Population Density ,General Veterinary ,biology ,Culicoides ,Seasonality ,biology.organism_classification ,medicine.disease ,biting midges ,Insect Vectors ,Biting ,arboviruses ,cattle - Abstract
Culicoides biting midges were collected on three cattle farms weekly using light traps overnight from May to October between 2010 and 2011 in the southern part of Korea. The seasonal and geographical abundance of Culicodes spp. were measured. A total of 16,538 biting midges were collected from 2010 to 2011, including seven species of Culicoides, four of which represented 98.42% of the collected specimens. These four species were Culicodes (C.) punctatus (n = 14,413), C. arakawae (n = 1,120), C. oxystoma (n = 427), and C. maculatus (n = 318). C. punctatus was the predominant species (87.15%).
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- 2012