Figure 1.
Female wing pattern and male genitalia of the Schultzei species group collected in Senegal (samples from the study and Cornet’s collection) and South Africa.
The slide reference number refers to the Cornet collection reference numbers [8].
Figure 2.
Location of the study sites in Senegal and abundance of species from the Schultzei group.
Table 1.
Female samples used for the molecular analysis, localization and Genbank accession numbers for the COI sequences.
Figure 3.
Variation in the wing patterns of C. subschultzei and C. oxystoma found in Senegal: Culicoides subschultzei typical form (A), Culicoides oxystoma typical form (B) and morphological variants: absence of pale spots in the second median cell (C) and presence of two pale spots in cubital cell (D).
Figure 4.
Phylogenetic analysis of species of the Schultzei group using COI sequence data.
The topology shows Bayesian inference tree using program MrBayes. Culicoides imicola was designated as an outgroup taxon. Numbers indicate bootstrap values from ML (bottom) analyses, and posterior probabilities from Bayesian analysis (top). Only bootstrap values >60% and Bayesian posterior probabilities >0.5 are shown. Branch lengths represent nucleotide substitutions per site.
Table 2.
Estimates of evolutionary divergence of sequence pairs between and within populations and species.