Abstract
The paper offers the genebank accession numbers of
Culicoides obsoletus
,
Culicoides scoticus
and
Culicoides pulicaris
sequences (ITS 1, ITS 2, 18S rRNA) that had been shown to be vectors of the bluetongue virus serotype 8, which was introduced in 2006 into Germany and spread until 2009 all over Central Europe, including parts of England. The numbers are FN 263292 until FN 263323.