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Culicoides selandicus

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Culicoides selandicus
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C. selandicus
Binomial name
Culicoides selandicus
Nielsen & Kristensen, 2015

Culicoides selandicus is a species of midges found in Scandinavia. It can be differentiated from its cogenerated by wing and maxillary palp characteristics.[1]

On November 26, 2015, three new Scandinavian species are discovered, which are culicoides boyi sp. nov., selandicus sp. nov., and kalix sp. nov. in molecular data.[2]

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  1. ^ Nielsen, Soren Achim; Kristensen, Michael (2015). "Delineation of Culicoides species by morphology and barcode exemplified by three new species of the subgenus Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from Scandinavia". Parasites & Vectors. 8 (1): 151. doi:10.1186/s13071-015-0750-4. ISSN 1756-3305. PMC 4372322. PMID 25889579.
  2. ^ Nielsen, Søren Achim; Kristensen, Michael; Pape, Thomas (2015). "Three new Scandinavian species of Culicoides (Culicoides): Culicoides boyi sp. nov., Culicoides selandicus sp. nov. and Culicoides kalix sp. nov. (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)". Biodiversity Data Journal (3): e5823. doi:10.3897/BDJ.3.e5823. ISSN 1314-2828. PMC 4678805. PMID 26696760.