Culicoides species reported in the nine Islands of Azores Archipelago (N = 30879 specimens).

A – Date of the first specimen identification; B – Percentage (of the total) of Culicoides specimens found in the island until November 2010; NR – Not reported; †Obsoletus Group include the females of the C. obsoletus s.s., C. scoticus, C. chiopterus and C. dewulfi species; §All the specimens found are referred to the male genre, except *where 5 females were identified based on morphological features and **where 8 females where identified by multiplex PCR [15]. The dates in normal writing refer to species that were first identified by other authors until September 2005 [23]. The dates in bold and italic refer to the first mention of the species in the island by the ESP.