| integrative taxonomy to investigate species boundaries within culicoides (diptera: ceratopogonidae): a case study using subgenus avaritia from australasia and eastern asia. | in this study, species boundaries were examined for 15 described and 2 undescribed species within the economically important culicoides subg. avaritia fox from australasia and eastern asia. we used an integrative taxonomic approach incorporating dna barcoding, nuclear gene sequencing, and retrospective morphological analyses. some arbovirus vector species such as culicoides fulvus sen and das gupta and culicoides wadai kitaoka were genetically and morphologically uniform across sampled distribut ... | 2016 | 26741249 |