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THE BITING MIDGE CULICOIDESIMPUNCTATUS GOETGHEBUER, 1920
(DIPTERA: CERATOPOGONIDAE) RECORDED FROM THE FAROES
1993). In Fennoscandia and Denmark Ice-
landic horses imported from Iceland fre-
quently develop Culicoides hypersensitivi-
ty, in some cases presumably caused by C.
impunctatus (Halldorsdottir et al., 1989).
Finally biting midges are also potential
vectors of a variety of pathogens of live-
stock
Hitherto only two identified species of
biting flies have been published from the
Faroes, i.e. a blackfly (Simuliidae) and a
biting midge (Ceratopogonidae, Culi-
coides); no species of mosquitoes (Culici-
dae), horse flies (Tabanidae) or Sto-
moxyine biting flies (Muscidae) have been
recorded (Lyneborg, 1968; Pedersen,
1971). The record of C. impunctatus adds a
persistent human and animal biter to the
Faroese fauna.
The authors are grateful to Anna-Elisa
Egholm and Kirsten Olesen for attending
the light trap and Peter Gjelstrup, Museum
of Natural History, Árhus, for placing in-
sects from the Faroes at our disposal.
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