An Annotated Checklist of the Ceratopogonidae (Diptera) of Florida with a New Synonymy

Wilkening, Alan J.; Kline, Daniel L.; Wirth, Willis W.

doi:10.2307/3494854

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“…The midge was preserved in 100% ethanol and sent to WLG who cleared it in phenol-alcohol, dissected and mounted it onto a microscope slide in Canada balsam and identified it as Forcipomyia (Microhelea) eriophora (Williston). Forcipomyia (M.) eriophora is an ectoparasite known to occur in Maryland and Florida, the West Indies and Mexico, Central America south to Bahia, Brazil (Wirth 1972;Wilkening et al 1985;Hribar & Grogan 2005;Borkent & Spinelli 2000, 2007Borkent & Grogan 2009;Grogan et al 2010). This observation represents the first known report of F. (M.) eriophora parasitism on A. t. floridalis.…”

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Forcipomyia(Microhelea)Eriophora(Williston) (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) an Ectoparasite of LarvalAnaea troglodyta floridalis(Nymphalidae)

Salvato¹,

Salvato²,

Grogan³

2012

Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society

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Forcipomyia(Microhelea)Eriophora(Williston) (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) an Ectoparasite of LarvalAnaea troglodyta floridalis(Nymphalidae)

Salvato¹,

Salvato²,

Grogan³

2012

Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society

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“…The interaction between drought and wetland cover (defined as emergent herbaceous wetlands and woody wetland) was suggestive of the vector ecology associated with HD. Culicoides species have specific breeding habitat requirements which may be associated with wetland systems and riparian habitats (Wilkening et al, 1985). Because these water‐oriented systems are inherently affected by watershed dynamics and drought conditions, the interaction of drought and wetland in the model was important for understanding one aspect of vector‐driven spatial heterogeneity across our study.…”

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“…Culicoides vector populations are sensitive to climatic and environmental conditions, leading researchers to suspect climate and midge habitat as drivers of increased HD reports in the United States (Berry, Magori, Perofsky, Stallknecht, & Park, 2013; Ruder, Lysyk, et al, 2015; Ruder, Stallknecht, et al, 2015; Stallknecht et al, 2015). Many Culicoides complete their reproductive cycle by laying eggs on a wet soil substrate high in organic material, and these habitats are typically near rivers, streams, and other aquatic habitats (Purse et al, 2005; Wilkening, Kline, & Wirth, 1985). It is possible that surface water drawdowns associated with drought could enhance these breeding habitats surrounding wetlands.…”

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The role of drought as a determinant of hemorrhagic disease in the eastern United States

Christensen

Ruder

Williams

et al. 2020

Global Change Biology

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Bluetongue virus and epizootic hemorrhagic disease (HD) virus are globally distributed, vector‐borne viruses that infect and cause disease in domestic and wild ruminant species. The forces driving increases in resulting HD may be linked to weather conditions and increasing severity has been noted in northerly latitudes. We evaluated the role of drought severity in both space and time on changes in HD reports across the eastern United States for a recent 15 year period. The objectives of this study were to: (a) develop a spatiotemporal model to evaluate if drought severity explains changing patterns of HD presence; and (b) determine whether this potential risk factor varies in importance over the present range of HD in the eastern United States. Historic data (2000–2014) from an annual HD presence–absence survey conducted by the Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study and from the United States Drought Monitor were used for this analysis. For every county in 23 states and for each of 15 years, data were based on reported drought status for August, wetland cover, the physiographic region, and the status of HD in the previous year. We used a generalized linear mixed model to explain HD presence and evaluated spatiotemporal predictors across the region. We found that drought severity was a significant predictor of HD presence and the significance of this relationship was dependent on latitude. In more northerly latitudes, where immunological naivety is most likely, we demonstrated the increasing strength of drought severity as a determinant of reported HD and established the importance of variation in drought severity as a risk factor over the present range of HD in the eastern United States. Our research provides spatially explicit evidence for the link between climate forces and emerging disease patterns across latitude for a globally distributed disease.

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“…Observational studies have noted that larvae of Culicoides spp. are abundant where soils border rivers and streams [21] and consequently have the potential to flourish during droughts as water recedes to create this ideal wet mud habitat. In a regional study of HD, factors including wind speed and rainfall were also predictive, suggesting a high-dimensional ecological niche for the vector [22].…”

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When More Transmission Equals Less Disease: Reconciling the Disconnect between Disease Hotspots and Parasite Transmission

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The assumed straightforward connection between transmission intensity and disease occurrence impacts surveillance and control efforts along with statistical methodology, including parameter inference and niche modeling. Many infectious disease systems have the potential for this connection to be more complicated–although demonstrating this in any given disease system has remained elusive. Hemorrhagic disease (HD) is one of the most important diseases of white-tailed deer and is caused by viruses in the Orbivirus genus. Like many infectious diseases, the probability or severity of disease increases with age (after loss of maternal antibodies) and the probability of disease is lower upon re-infection compared to first infection (based on cross-immunity between virus strains). These broad criteria generate a prediction that disease occurrence is maximized at intermediate levels of transmission intensity. Using published US field data, we first fit a statistical model to predict disease occurrence as a function of seroprevalence (a proxy for transmission intensity), demonstrating that states with intermediate seroprevalence have the highest level of case reporting. We subsequently introduce an independently parameterized mechanistic model supporting the theory that high case reporting should come from areas with intermediate levels of transmission. This is the first rigorous demonstration of this phenomenon and illustrates that variation in transmission rate (e.g. along an ecologically-controlled transmission gradient) can create cryptic refuges for infectious diseases.

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An Annotated Checklist of the Ceratopogonidae (Diptera) of Florida with a New Synonymy

Cited by 31 publications

References 16 publications

Forcipomyia(Microhelea)Eriophora(Williston) (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) an Ectoparasite of LarvalAnaea troglodyta floridalis(Nymphalidae)

Forcipomyia(Microhelea)Eriophora(Williston) (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) an Ectoparasite of LarvalAnaea troglodyta floridalis(Nymphalidae)

The role of drought as a determinant of hemorrhagic disease in the eastern United States

When More Transmission Equals Less Disease: Reconciling the Disconnect between Disease Hotspots and Parasite Transmission

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