The species determination in this paper was done based on drawings gratefully given to us as a key by Dr. Carpenter (Pirbright, UK) (see Fig. 6 right side), based on Figures published by J. Boormann in the book of Lane RP and Crosskey RW (Medicinal insects and arachnids. “Chapmann and Hall 1993 as well as on unpublished Collection material of our Zoological Institute”.
Light micrographs (left side) and diagrammatic representations of the wings of the four trapped Culicoides species
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Mehlhorn, H., Walldorf, V., Klimpel, S. et al. First occurrence of Culicoides obsoletus-transmitted bluetongue virus epidemic in central Europe. Parasitol Res 101, 833–834 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-007-0561-4
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