An annotated checklist of<i>Culicoides</i>Latreille, 1809 (Insecta: Ceratopogonidae: Diptera) with incorporation of a vector species list from India

Mukhopadhyay, Emon; Mazumdar, Abhijit; Joardar, Siddhartha Narayan; Saha, Goutam Kumar; Banerjee, Dhriti

doi:10.1111/jvec.12223

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“…Among 1343 Diptera Section, Zoological Survey of India, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate change, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata-700 053, West Bengal, India. Culicoides species all over the world, 73 species are found in India 57 of them from West Bengal, 30 Culicoides vectors reported worldwide, 13 of them are reported from India, of which 11 are found in West Bengal (Mukhopadhyay et al 2016). Inspite of these reports, studies on vector-borne disease transmission by Culicoides in West Bengal are fragmentary.…”

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Effect of Environment and Elevation on Seasonal Prevalence of Culicoides in West Bengal

Mukhopadhyay

Hazra

Banerjee

2020

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Background: Culicoides, popularly known as ‘biting midges’ is a group of vector insects causing transmission of pathogens to livestock and other closely related mammals leading to animal health deterioration. They are among the smallest and most abundant hematophagous vectors of Blue tongue virus (BTV), Epizootic haemorrhagic disease virus (EHDV), African horse sickness virus (AHSV), Equine encephalitis virus (EEV), protozoans, filarial nematodes throughout the world. They are known to spread livestock diseases in India in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Nagaland, Punjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. 30 Culicoides vectors are reported worldwide, 13 of them from India, of which 11 are found in West Bengal. In the Indian subcontinent, biting midges live throughout the year, with two distinct peaks - one in the monsoon (August-September) and another peak during post-monsoon or beginning of winter (November) and there is a steady decrease during the summer months (May). Adults thrive best at low-temperature range (19-32oC) and rainfall plays an important role in Culicoides breeding and life-cycle. But a detailed account on the ecology, breeding sites, biology and bionomics of immature and adults have been poorly understood with very scanty literature. The present research is aimed to provide an exhaustive detail on the ecological behavior of Culicoides and their prevalence pattern based on the effect of meteorological parameter and elevation across different regions of West Bengal. Methods: Insect samples were collected using sweep nets in the early morning, afternoon and just before sunset for a period of four years from January 2014 to December 2017 in six agro-climatic regions of West Bengal. After collection, they were transferred in 70% ethanol, kept in a cool place, sorted and different parts of the specimen were mounted on glass slides in the phenol-balsam mixture and identified through Leica DFC 295 binocular light microscope. Ecological graph analysis were generated using software PAST 3.0 and MS-EXCEL 2016. Maps on sampling sites was generated using software ARC GIS 10.5). Result: Five Culicoides species-Culicoides oxystoma, C. actoni, C. peregrinus,C. orientalis and C. anophelis were collected. The results show highest prevalence in post-monsoon months at the coastal-saline region, at an of elevation 5-15m with ideal temperature of 14-35oC and rainfall of 1100-2000mm in West Bengal, with the highest dominance of Culicoides oxystoma throughout the year.

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Effect of Environment and Elevation on Seasonal Prevalence of Culicoides in West Bengal

Mukhopadhyay

Hazra

Banerjee

2020

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“…Southeastern United States, Mexico (Ciudad de México, Oaxaca, Puebla) (Root & Hoffman, 1937;Huerta et al, 2012). Mukhopadhyay et al, (2016) Remarks. This species has a wide Neotropical distribution, including part of the Nearctic region of United States .…”

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New records of genus Culicoides Latreille from Oaxaca, Mexico (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)

Huerta¹,

Benitez-Alva²,

Concha-Suarez³

et al. 2020

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First records of Culicoides ginesi and Culicoides glabellus for Mexico. New distribution records for the state of Oaxaca of the following species are also presented: Culicoides baueri, Culicoides debilipalpis, Culicoides hylas, Culicoides neopulicaris, Culicoides pseudodiabolicus and Culicoides pusillus. Also, new localities for Culicoides foxi, Culicoides insignis, Culicoides jamaicensis and Culicoides ocumarensis are included. A key and table are presented for the known species in the state of Oaxaca.

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“…There are more than 1,000 species of Culicoides worldwide [13], 27 of which have been reported from India [14,15]. An abundance of vectors and the differential feeding preferences of vectors can determine the risk of Culicoidesborne diseases [16].…”

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Abundance and Diversity of Culicoides Species (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in Different Forest Landscapes of Karnataka, India: Implications for Culicoides Borne Diseases

Archana,

Nayankumar,

Sundarraj

et al. 2023

Transboundary and Emerging Diseases

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Culicoides are important vectors for livestock and human pathogens. Wild animals act as reservoirs for important orbiviruses such as bluetongue and African horse sickness viruses. There are only limited studies on the distribution of Culicoides species in forest habitats. In this study, we collected Culicoides from different wildlife sanctuaries and national parks of Karnataka. We collected and morphologically identified 8597 Culicoides. We found 18 species of Culicoides in different sites, with C. oxystoma and C. imicola being the predominant species across the sites. The sequence alignment and phylogenetic analysis of the Cox1 gene of Cuilicoides species revealed a huge level of sequence similarity and their wide distribution around the world. Most of the isolates from our study were closely related to Chinese isolates. The abundance of the species was analyzed using the Bayesian ordination method. We used a hierarchical joint distribution negative binomial regression model to detect the correlation between species owing to environmental covariates and residual correlation. The presence of potential vectors for important livestock pathogens in wild habitats in our study warrants further research on the detection of pathogens in Culicoides collected from forest habitats and adopt surveillance in wild animal habitats to prevent disease spread from wild animals to livestock and vice versa.

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An annotated checklist ofCulicoidesLatreille, 1809 (Insecta: Ceratopogonidae: Diptera) with incorporation of a vector species list from India

Cited by 5 publications

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Effect of Environment and Elevation on Seasonal Prevalence of Culicoides in West Bengal

Effect of Environment and Elevation on Seasonal Prevalence of Culicoides in West Bengal

New records of genus Culicoides Latreille from Oaxaca, Mexico (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)

Abundance and Diversity of Culicoides Species (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in Different Forest Landscapes of Karnataka, India: Implications for Culicoides Borne Diseases

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