Spatial and Temporal Distribution ofCulicoides insignisandCulicoides paraensisin the Subtropical Mountain Forest of Tucumán, Northwestern Argentina

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Tracking Community Timing: Pattern and Determinants of Seasonality in Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in Northern Florida

“…For instance, northern Florida falls within the temperate domain of southeastern USA making it tempting to analyze communities using a four-season regime. The ordination pattern of Culicoides that we observed, however, is more consistent with a biannual seasonality structure commonly seen in subtropical and tropical biomes [39,[109][110][111]. This pattern of subtropical seasonality was consistently detected with our different modeling approaches (diversity composition, diversity structure, co-occurrence network and vector subassemblage partitioning among environmental thresholds).…”

Ceratopogonidae (Diptera: Nematocera) of the piedmont of the Yungas forests of Tucumán: ecology and distribution

“…In relation to this, Veggiani Aybar et al (2010a) and Veggiani Aybar et al (2011) observed that in Tucumán province, the higher incidence of Culicoides was mainly associated with accumulated rainfall, followed by relative humidity, wind speed and mean temperature, although these last two variables were not significant in the present study. On the other hand, studies in Salta province reported a positive correlation between the abundance of Culicoides and temperature and relative humidity (Veggiani Aybar et al, 2012).…”

“…These studies determined the spatio-temporal abundance of Culicoides spp. and the influence of meteorological variables (temperature, accumulated rainfall, humidity, etc) in their abundance, behavior and distribution, and the interactions between pathogens and vectors (Veggiani Aybar et al, 2010b; Veggiani Aybar et al, 2011; Veggiani Aybar et al, 2012; Veggiani Aybar et al, 2015); however, such aspects have not been studied in other families of Ceratopogonidae of the area. Therefore, the objective of this study was to determine the presence and abundance of the main genera of Ceratopogonidae in piedmont forests of Tucumán province, and to evaluate the effect of meteorological variables in their distribution.…”

Ecological niche modeling the potential geographic distribution of fourCulicoidesspecies of veterinary significance in Florida

“…This study employed ecological niche modeling to estimate the variable space and geographic distribution of four important Culicoides species with veterinary significance in Florida. Though there are several informative studies from Europe, South Africa, and South America using ENMs for Culicoides vectors [23,25,41], there is a paucity of this type of work in the Americas.…”

“…In North America, Zuliani et al [24] used a maximum entropy (MAXENT) approach to ENM and temperature variables to predict future distributions of C. sonorensis in the western US, due to climate change, and found that northern latitudinal limits are most at risk of species range expansion associated with increased temperatures. In Argentina, Aybar et al [25] found that minimum and maximum temperatures and accumulated rainfall were the best indicators of presence of C. insignis and Culicoides paraensis Goeldi. Rainfall was also demonstrated as important for the presence of C. insignis [26] in Brazil.…”