THE
CERATOPOGONIDAE INFORMATION EXCHANGE
The CIE, issued twice
a
year (no subscription costs but donations to help with
photocopying/mailing
costs are welcomed), was begun
in 1968 as a newsletter to facilitate
communication
between workers interested in Ceratopogonidae.
The format is extremely flexible.
Contributions may be of
any
length and deal with any subject having some bearing on the study of ceratopogonids. For example,
contributors may report their current
interests or plans, observations or techniques of probable value to the
readership, requests for
addresses, study material or
reprints,
or any other matter of concern. The newsletter serves also as a
bulletin
for planning and
communicating information on meetings,
symposia, workshops and so forth. Finally, there is in every
issue a compilation of recent
literature in the field.
Any person(s)
wishing to contribute to the
newsletter or to receive future issues via e-mail should contact :
Dr. C. Steven Murphree
e-mail: murphrees@mail.belmont.edu
Department of
Biology Phone: 615-460-6221
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CIE Vol. 76 -
December
2005 The Ceratopogonidae
Information Exchange Newsletter
Dear Colleagues,
A great deal of
research continues to be published about ceratopogonids
and the diseases they vector. Allow me to especially
highlight Dr. V.M. Glukhova’s impressive “Culicoides of
Please send citations or reprints of any papers that I have not included in recent issues so that I can include them in the next
issue. My thanks again to colleagues who graciously assisted me in responding via e-mail to individuals with questions about
biting
midges.
Once each year I state my need for
your financial
assistance. My out-of-pocket costs for postage in mailing the December
issue to subscribers without e-mail access is typically $20-25 U.S.D. So, I still need to receive monetary contributions of
any amount to offset these fees as well as the $816.00 out-of-pocket costs that I paid for the printing and mailing of previous
issues
prior to converting to e-mail distribution.
Volume 77 of this newsletter will appear in late May, 2006.
Please send research summaries and requests to me by May 15.
With kind regards,
Steve
Nashville
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1. International Congress of Dipterology - 2006
The 6th International Congress of Dipterology will be held at the Fukuoka
International
Congress Center,
2006. The scientific program will
include symposia,
workshops and poster sessions. Themes of the scientific sessions
will include:
・Morphology, Physiology and Ultrastructure
・Medical, Veterinary and Forensic Diptera
・Agricultural Diptera
・Behavior and Ecology
・Biodiversity and Conservation
・Systematics and Phylogeny
・Genetics and Genomics
・Collections and Databases
Please visit the following websites for
details
about expected costs, accommodations, etc.:
Main website: http://apollon.nta.co.jp/6icd
NADS website: http://www.nadsdiptera.org/ICD/ICDhome.htm
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From: Andrea Tothova
e-mail: mailto:mtothova@sci.muni.cz
Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Dear colleagues,
For those who dont know me – my name is
Andrea
Tothova, I am a Ph.D. student interested in
Ceratopogonidae. I have asked
Dr. Art Borkent for some specimens of Atrichopogon epicautae and A. lucorum species. I was also lent the type series of A.
epicautae
from the Smithonian Institution and some
specimens
of A. lucorum.
I have a problem: during our study in the
following the key by Wirth (1980). The DNA
analysis
of 16S mtDNA showed the identity of one of
these
„epicautae“
specimens with the male of European A.lucorum. After receiving and
studying
the type specimens and the material from the
Canadian National Collection, I found out
interesting
facts:
1. the type epicautae is
totally
different from the Canadian specimens
2. males described by Wirth in the above
mentioned
key are not Meloehelea at
all
(there are 2 not even similar males)
There is no A. lucorum
from
the U.S. in the collection (they are from England and Scotland), there
is one specimen is from
Arizona, but is different from typical A. lucorum. The Canadian lucorum is
totally different
from everything...
There are a couple of conclusions – maybe it is one species, and all
those differences are geographical varieties only, or the
Canadian species are different valid species...
By this way, I would like to request that you please send to me alcohol
preserved
material of these two species, if you have
any
in your collections, because this problem should be resolved. It would
be
very kind of you. Or if you know, please tell
other colleagues who are interested in biting midges.
Thanks very much in advance for your time, patience, future help and advise.
All the best,
Andrea
RNDr. Andrea Tóthová
Department of Zoology and Ecology
Faculty of Science,
Kotlářská 2
611 37
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Contributions
from Scientists:
From: P. Scaramozzino,
A.
Magliano, F. Farina, C.
De Liberato
Istituto Zooprofilattico
Sperimentale delle
Regioni Lazio
e Toscana, Rome,
Italy
Evidence
of New Bluetongue Vectors and Vaccine
Virus Circulation in
Since summer 2000,
regions (southern
Since 2001 serological and entomological surveillance
programs based on serological tests of unvaccinated sentinel bovines
and
Culicoides
collections have been carried
out. In 2002 massive vaccination of all
susceptible
ruminant domestic species (sheep, cattle, goats and water
buffaloes) started.
Surveillance activities went on also during vaccination. From these
programs
carried out in Lazio and
two issues elucidating important
aspects of BT epidemiology came up.
First, we suspected the role of
other
Culicoides species joining C. imicola as virus vectors. In fact in the
2002 epidemic,
some municipalities
of southern Lazio where C. imicola
was never recorded, experienced Bluetongue outbreaks. A viral strain
was isolated
from pools of 20
parous-non-blood-engorged C. obsoletus
females inoculated on BHK-21
monolayers. Serum neutralization tests
confirmed
that the virus
isolate was Bluetongue virus serotype-2. C. obsoletus is distributed from the
southern
regions of
throughout the year
in the southern part of its distribution. Hence, areas until now stated
as
risk free, could now be considered at risk of Bluetongue
diffusion.
Moreover, because of the unusual
occurrence of
several seroconversions (during 2002 and
2003
in Lazio and Tuscany) among unvaccinated
sentinels belonging to herds just
vaccinated or close to areas where vaccination had been carried out,
even
in areas and periods never interested
by wild virus circulation, the possible
circulation of Bluetongue vaccine virus serotype-2 was investigated. So
far,
no record of Bluetongue
vaccine virus circulation is reported in literature.
Nevertheless, the possibility that attenuated virus could circulate, via
active vectors, among
susceptible animals has to be considered, and even
a possible reversion to virulence once the vaccine virus replicates in
insects
can not be
excluded. Effectively, we were able to demonstrate the presence
of Bluetongue vaccine virus serotype-2 in both blood samples from
unvaccinated
animals and Culicoides midges, via
a specific PCR test. This is the first report of vaccine virus
circulation
in the field via active vectors. This
evidence is strongly supported
by the simultaneous detection of vaccine virus in unvaccinated cattle
and
in parous-non-blood-engorged Culicoides.
Interestingly, both C. imicola and
C. obsoletus were found to be
positive for vaccine virus.
Since C. obsoletus
in
the evaluation of surveillance results difficult. More efforts will be
needed to distinguish between field and vaccine strains to have a clear
picture
of the current epidemiological situation. This seems to be a very
critical
issue in those territories free from disease/infection but bordering
with
zones
where vaccination is carried out.
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From: Larry Hribar
Monroe
County Mosquito Control District,
1. Ceratopogonid
papers
from Studia Dipterologica
Szadziewski, Ryszard 1996. Biting midges from Lower Cretaceous
amber
of
Upper Cretaceous Siberian
amber
of Taimyr (Diptera,
Ceratopogonidae). - [Gnitzen
aus unterkretazischem Bernstein des
Libanon
und oberkretazischen Bernstein
der Taimyr Region in Sibirien
(Diptera,
Ceratopogonidae).] 3(1):23-86.
Bose, Maitri, Das Gupta, S. K. and P. K. Chaudhuri 2002[2003]. A new biting Midge of
the genus Dasyhelea
Kieffer (Diptera:
Ceratopogonidae) from
Gnitze der Gattung Dasyhelea Kieffer (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) aus
Indien.]
9(2): 375-377.
2. West
Two pools of female Culicoides
sonorensis tested positive for WNV with
an
infection rate of 2.31
per 1000. To request a reprint of this
paper,
please contact Dr. Naugle at: dave.naugle@cfc.umt.edu
or
Wildlife Biology Program,
Naugle, D.E. and C. L., Aldridge, et al. 2004.
sage-grouse. Ecology Letters 7 (8), 704-713.
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From: Brian V. Brown
Mike Sharkey is assembling people to
participate
in a survey project for insects in
This project will operate for at least 3
years,
and will include Malaise trapping in 10 National
Parks per year (we will change parks yearly).
He
has asked me to organize a group of dipterists
who would be willing to receive material from
this
project. We are especially looking for people
actively working on the taxonomy of groups
from
this area, who could incorporate this material
into their revisions, but also those
interested
in beginning work in this region of the world. Our
goals are to get new species described, document
species
distributions in
build the collections in both North American and
Thai
museums. If more than one specialist per
taxon is interested, I will encourage people to
form
teams to address these groups.
Collections would be made by National Parks
staff
in various locations throughout the country.
Sorters in
and would sort them into vials of alcohol. These
vials
would be shipped to participating researchers
under regular loan conditions. Needless to
say,
all specimens will be collected and exported legally,
with the help of our Thai collaborators.
The conditions on receiving the specimens
would
be that holotypes of new species must be
returned
to one of our collaborating Thai institutions
as
well as 50% of the paratype material; up
to 50%
of the
paratypes can be retained by the investigator. Fifty
percent
of identified material of known species
can also be retained. Unidentified material
can
be retained on long-term loan, but will need to bear
labels stating the restrictions of the project (holotypes + 50% returned to
conditions for the full language.
Please contact me mbbrown@nhm.org to outline your
interest
in this project.
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Cazorla, C.G. and P.I. Marino. 2004. The pupa of Stilobezzia
punctulata Lane from Peruvian
Amazonia (Diptera:
Ceratopogonidae). Amazoniana
18(1-2): 75-80.
Felippe-Bauer,
M.L., Caceres,
A.G., Silva, C.S.,
Valderrama-Bazan, W. and
A. Gonzales-Perez.
2005. A new Culicoides
(Diptera : Ceratopogonidae)
of
the subgenus Diphaomyia from
Memorias Do Instituto Oswaldo
Cruz
100(1):51-53.
Laender, J.O.,
Ribeiro, E.S., Gouveia,
A.M.G., Lobato, Z.I.P.
and M.L.F.Bauer. 2004. Account
of the species of Culicoides
Latreille, 1809 (Diptera:Ceratopogonidae)
in the regions of Norte
de Minas, Jequitinhonha
and Vale do Mucuri,
Minas Gerais, Brasil. Entomologia
y Vectores
11(1):145-157.
Liu Zeng-jia, Zhang Ji-jun and Zhan-Wei Gong. 2004. Descriptions on a new species of
Leptoconops and the male of Leptoconops
(Holoconops) geermuensis
Liu et Yu (Diptera:
Ceratopogonidae). Entomotaxonomia.
26(1):49-52.
Ronderos, M.M.,
Diaz, F. and G.R. Spinelli. 2004. A new species of Dasyhelea
Kieffer from
American Entomological Society (
Sasaki, H., Fujikawa,
M., Toma, T. and
Ceratopogonidae) collected at
source. Nihon Eisei
Dobutsu Gakkai
the
Sinha, S., Mazumdar,
A.
and P.K. Chaudhuri. 2005. New species of predaceous midges of
the
genus Alluaudomyia
Kieffer, 1913 (Insecta,
Diptera, Ceratopogonidae)
from the coastal
region of West Bengal, India. Zoosystema 27(1):115-122.
Spinelli, G.R., Marino, P.I. and M.M. Ronderos.
2005. The fourth instar larva and pupa of
the
Neotropical biting midge Forcipomyia
(Forcipomyia) rioplatensis
Marino and Spinelli
(Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Proceedings of the
Entomological Society of
107(1):108-114.
Spinelli, G.R., Ronderos, M.M.,
Diaz, F. and P.I. Marino. 2005. The bloodsucking biting
midges
of Argentina (Diptera : Ceratopogonidae).
Memorias Do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz 100(2):137-150.
[A key is presented for the
identification
of the adults of 54 species of bloodsucking -Ed]
Bishop, A.L., McKenzie, H.J., Spohr, L.J. and I.M. Barchia. 2005. Interactions between dung
beetles (Coleoptera
: Scarabaeidae) and the arbovirus vector Culicoides
brevitarsis Kieffer
(Diptera :Ceratopogonidae). Australian Journal of
Entomology 44(Part 2):89-96.
Blackwell, A., Evans, K. A., Strang, R. H. C. and M. Cole. 2004. Toward development of
neem-based repellents against the Scottish
Highland
biting midge Culicoides impunctatus.
Medical and Veterinary Entomology 18(4):449-452.
Borkent, A.
2004. 10. Ceratopogonidae. pp. 113-126. In
Biology
of Disease Vectors, 2nd edition.
William C. Marquardt (ed.). xxiii
+ 785 pp., Elsevier Academic Press. [An excellent book
chapter including an extensive table of
organisms transmitted by ceratopogonids
with notes
taxonomy, morphology, life cycles and medical
& veterinary importance – Ed.]
Carpenter, S.,Eyres, K., McEndrick,
Repellent efficiency of BayRepel against Culicoides
impunctatus (Diptera : Ceratopogonidae).
Parasitology Research 95(6):427-429.
Mands, V., Kline, D. L. and A. Blackwell. 2004. Culicoides
midge trap enhancement with animal
odour baits in
Bluetongue Virus and
Other
Pathogens
Breard, E., Sailleau,
C.,
Hamblin, C. and S. Zientara. 2005. Bluetongue virus in the
of
Broza, M., Gancz, H., Halpern, M.
and Y. Kashi. 2005. Adult non-biting midges: possible
windborne
carriers of Vibrio
cholerae non-O1 non-O139. Environmental
Microbiology 7(4):576-585. [note
that biting midges were not studied here but
could
be – Ed.]
2005. Midgut and
salivary gland transcriptomes of the arbovirus vector Culicoides
sonorensis
(Diptera : Ceratopogonidae). Insect Molecular Biology
14(2):121-136.
Chandel, B.S., Kher,
H.N.,
Chauhan, H.C. and K.A. Vasava. 2004. Serological survey of
antibodies to bluetongue virus in domestic ruminants in
81(7): 737-740.
Chauhan, H.C., Chandel,
B.S.,
Gerdes, T., Vasava,
K.A., Patel, A.R., Kher, H.N., Singh, V.
and R.A. Dongre. 2004. Seroepidemiology
of bluetongue in dromedary camels in
Dahiya, S., Prasad, G., Minakshi,
K. and C. Ramesh. 2004. VP2 gene based phylogenetic
relationship of Indian isolates of bluetongue
virus serotype different parts of the world
DNA Sequence 15(5-6):351-361.
Dahiya, S., Prasad, G., Minakshi,
K. and R.C. Kovi. 2005. Restriction analysis of conserved
and variable regions of VP2 gene of Indian
isolates
of bluetongue virus serotype 1.
Indian Journal of Experimental Biology 43(3):272-276.
Desai, P. U. 2004. Sero-prevalence of
bluetongue
in cattle in two south
Veterinary Journal 81(11): 1273.
De Liberato, C.,
Scavia, G., Lorenzetti,
R., Scaramozzino, P., Amaddeo,
D., Cardeti, G.,
Scicluna, M., Ferrari, G. and G.L. Autorino. 2005. Identification of Culicoides
obsoletus
(Diptera : Ceratopogonidae) as
a vector of bluetongue virus in central
Record 156(10):301-304.
dos
Medicina (Ribeirao Preto) 36(1):112-113.
Ferrari, G., De Liberato,
C., Scavia, G., Lorenzetti,
R., Zini, M., Farina,
F., Magliano, A., Cardeti,
G., Scholl,
F., Guidoni,
M., Scicluna, M.T.,
Amaddeo, D., Scaramozzino,
P. and G.L. Autorino. 2005.
Active
circulation of bluetongue vaccine virus serotype-2 Among
unvaccinated cattle in central
Veterinary Medicine 68(2-4):103-113.
Giovannini, A., MacDiarmid,
S.,
Calistri, P., Conte, A., Savini, L., Nannini,
D.
and S. Weber.
2004. The use of risk assessment to decide
the
control strategy for bluetongue in Italian
ruminant populations. Risk Analysis
24(6):1737-1753.
Hagihara, M. Yamaguchi, T., Kitahara,
M., Hirai, K. and K. Murata.
2004.
Leucocytozoon lovati infections in
wild rock Ptarmigan (Lagopus
mutus) in
Hugo, V. and A. Quintana. 2002. Complete nucleotide sequence and
related
studies to the genome
of the Bunyavirus
Oropouche. Medicina
(
Ito, A., Gotanda,
T.,
Kobayashi, S., Kume, K., Sugimoto, C. and
T.
Matsumura. 2005. Increase
of antibody titer against Leucocytozoon caulleryi
by oral administration of recombinant R7
antigen. Journal of Veterinary Medical
Science 67(2):211-213.
Ito, A. and T. Gotanda. 2005. A rapid assay for detecting antibody
against
leucocytozoonosis in
chickens with a latex agglutination test
using recombinant
R7 antigen. Avian Pathology
34(1):15-9.
Koerber, R.T., Gasparich,
G.E., Frana, M.F. and W.L. Grogan, Jr. 2005. Spiroplasma
atrichopogonis sp nov., from a
ceratopogonid biting midge.
International Journal
of
Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 55, Part 1: 289-292.
Lacetera, N. and B. Ronchi. 2004. Evaluation of antibody response and
nonspecific lymphocyte
blastogenesis following inoculation of a live attenuated
bluetongue virus vaccine in goats
American Journal of Veterinary Research 65(1):1331-1334.
Mullens, B.A., Owen, J.P., Heft, D.E. and R.V. Sobeck.
2005. Culicoides and other biting
flies
on the Palos Verdes
Peninsula of Southern California, and their possible relationship to
equine dermatitis. Journal of the
American Mosquito Control Association 21(1):90-95.
Monteys, V.S.I.,
Ventura, D., Pages, N., Aranda, C. and R. Escosa. 2005. Expansion
of
Culicoides imicola, the main bluetongue virus vector in
Veterinary Record 156(13):415.
Murphy, M.D., Howerth,
E.W., MacLachlan, N. J., and D.E. Stallknecht. 2005. Genetic variation
among epizootic hemorrhagic disease viruses in the
southeastern
Infection Genetics and Evolution 5(2):157-165.
Naugle, D.E. and C. L., Aldridge, et al. 2004.
sage-grouse. Ecology Letters 7 (8), 704-713.
[See Larry
Hribar’s note about this paper above-Ed.]
Paweska, J. T. and G.J. Venter. 2004. Vector competence of Culicoides species and the
seroprevalence of homologous neutralizing antibody in
horses
for six serotypes of equine
encephalosis
virus (EEV) in
Peirce, M.A., Adlard,
R.D.
and R. Lederer. 2005. A new species of Leucocytozoon
Berestneff, 1904 (Apicomplexa:
Leucocytozoidae) from the avian family Artamidae.
Systematic Parasitology
60(2):151-154.
Purse, B.V., Mellor, P.S.,
the recent
emergence
of bluetongue in
Sarto i
Monteys, V.,
Culicoides imicola, the main bluetongue virus vector in
Veterinary Record 156(13):415-417.
Shringi. S. and B.N. Shringi 2005.Comparative efficacy of standard AGID,
CCIE
and competitive
ELISA for detecting bluetongue virus
antibodies
in indigenous breeds of sheep and goats in
Rajasthan, Indian Journal of Veterinary
Science 6(1):77-79.
Ting, L.J., Lee, M.S., Huang, I.S., Huang,
C.C.,
Kuo, S.T., Lee, F., Jong,
M.H., Shiau, J.R.
and S.Y. Lin. 2005. Identification of
bluetongue
virus in goats in
156(2):52.
White, D.M.,
viruses in insects. Journal of General Virology
86, Part 2: 453-462.
Yanase, T., Kato, T., Kubo, T., Yoshida, K., Ohashi, S., Yamakawa,
M., Miura, Y. and T. Tsuda.
2005. Isolation of bovine Arboviruses from Culicoides
biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)
in southern
Yeruham,
Ctenocephalides and Culicoides
bites. Veterinary Dermatology 15(6): 377-380.