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Species: | C. bolitinos Meiswinkel 1989
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Culicoides bolitinos |
Culicoides bolitinos is an African species of bloodsucking fly that breeds in the dung of the African buffalo ( Syncerus caffer), the blue wildebeest ( Connochaetes taurinus), and cattle ( Bosraces). [1] It is considered a possible vector for African horse sickness. [2] It is closely related to Culicoides imicola.