Open AccessAN INVESTIGATION OF BITING MIDGES IN RELATION TO THEIR POTENTIAL AS VECTORS OF BOVINE ONCHOCERCIASIS IN NORTH QUEENSLAND
Author(s) -
Beveridge I.,
Kummerow E. L.,
Wilkinson P.,
Copeman D. B.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
australian journal of entomology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1440-6055
pISSN - 1326-6756
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-6055.1981.tb00997.x
Subject(s) - midge , biology , culicoides , biting , onchocerciasis , veterinary medicine , ceratopogonidae , larva , trap (plumbing) , zoology , ecology , medicine , environmental engineering , engineering , immunology
Biting midges were investigated at a study area near Townsville, Queensland, by means of truck trap, light trap and bait calf collections. Fourteen species of Culicoides were collected in truck and light traps and 9 species of Culicoides and 2 of Lasiohelea from bait calves. Midge abundance, as assessed by numbers in truck trap collections and numbers biting calves was greatest during February to April, the wetter months of the year. The 3 principal species biting calves were Culicoides marksi Lee and Reye, C. acloni Smith, and Lasiohelea sp. C. marksi and C. actoni were collected mainly from the ventral surfaces of bait calves, and Lasiohelea sp. mainly on the legs. Filarioid nematode larvae were found only in C. marksi from truck trap collections.