Captured #Leptoconops noei from the study. Video courtesy of Prof. Sara Epis.

#Ceratopogonidae

View from one of the collection areas in Tuscany, Italy, covered in the study. Photo credit: Sara Epis.

Researchers collecting Leptoconops noei midges. Photo credit: Sara Epis.

New #OpenAccess work in #RESMedVetEnt reports on the discovery of a new inland population of #Leptoconops noei in Italy with sequencing of the first complete mitochondrial genome for the genus
doi.org/10.1111/mve.12828

#COX1 #Sandflies #BitingMidges
Photo credit: Prof. Sara Epis
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