Abstract
More than 190,000 Culicoides, representing the following 24 species, were collected by 146 light-trappings during mid-June, 1972 and late August, 1973 from Amami-oshima, Japan; C. amamiensis, C. arakawae, C. aterinervis, C. balius, C. brevipalpis, C. charadraeus, C. dendrophilus, C. jacobsoni, C. japonicus, C. kibunensis, C. matsuzawai, C. megaforticeps, C. nagahanai, C. nipponensis, C. obsoletus, C. okinawensis, C. okumensis, C. pampangensis, C. paucidentatus, C. schultzei, C. sigaensis, C. suzukii, C. wakuensis and C. sp. F. The data indicated that 19 out of 24 species showed blood-feeding; dominat ornithophilic species, such as C. arakawae, C. balius and C. kibunensis fed on chickens and dominant zoophilic species, such as C. amamiensis, C. jacobsoni, C. okumensis, C. schultzei and C. sigaensis fed on cattle and pigs throughout the year in this area.
