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CULICOIDES SPP. (DIPTERA: CERATOPOGONIDAE) ATTRACTED TO HUMANS IN NEW BRUNSWICK AND NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Ellis C. Greiner ,
David M. Taylor ,
David J. Lewis  and
J. Antony Downes
Ellis C. Greiner
Affiliation:
Department of Biology and International Reference Centre for Avian Haematozoa, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's A1C 5S7
David M. Taylor
Affiliation:
Department of Biology and International Reference Centre for Avian Haematozoa, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's A1C 5S7
David J. Lewis
Affiliation:
Department of Biology and International Reference Centre for Avian Haematozoa, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's A1C 5S7
J. Antony Downes
Affiliation:
Biosystematics Research Institute, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa K1A 0C6
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Abstract

Seven species of Culicoides were collected from aerial sweeps about man or from aspiration of biting midges from man in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Hourly sweep netting indicated C. biguttatus was diurnal in this region and was apparently limited in its dispersion. Culicoides sanguisuga was the most widely distributed species of those collected in the region. A checklist of the 15 species of Culicoides now known from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia is included.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 110 , Issue 3 , 01 March 1978 , pp. 237 - 240
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1978

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