“…Our results are generally similar to those obtained in previous studies, where arthropod vectors species were dominated by Proteobacteria, including Gammaproteobacteria , Betaproteobacteria , Alphaproteobacteria , and to a lesser extent by Firmicutes, commonly Bacilli and Actinobacteria [13,18,44–46,77,78], These groups included bacterial genera previously described for Culex [13,44,46,77], Culicoides [21,38], Lutzomyia [37,79], Haemaphysalis [78,80] and Amblyomma [42,81].…”