Observations of female and mixed sex swarming behaviour in Culicoides Latreille, 1809 (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)

Female swarming behaviour has rarely been described in Culicoides. Previous records of female swarms have only been described for females swarming in mixed swarms together with males. Two new observations of Culicoides swarms in Sweden are described here: a mixed swarm with females of Culicoides obs...

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Main Author: Kirkeby Carsten
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2018-06-01
Series:Polish Journal of Entomology
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/pjen-2018-0014