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The identification of their feeding behaviour and of vector\u2013host associations is essential for understanding their transmission capacity. By applying two different nested polymerase chain reaction (\n                    <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">PCR<\/jats:styled-content>\n                    ) assays, of which one targeted the avian cyt\n                    <jats:italic>b<\/jats:italic>\n                    gene and the other targeted the\n                    <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">COI<\/jats:styled-content>\n                    gene of a wide range of vertebrates, we identified the blood hosts of six biting midge species including\n                    <jats:italic>Culicoides circumscriptus<\/jats:italic>\n                    ,\n                    <jats:italic>Culicoides festivipennis<\/jats:italic>\n                    ,\n                    <jats:italic>Culicoides punctatus<\/jats:italic>\n                    ,\n                    <jats:italic>Culicoides pictipennis<\/jats:italic>\n                    ,\n                    <jats:italic>Culicoides alazanicus<\/jats:italic>\n                    and\n                    <jats:italic>Culicoides cf. griseidorsum<\/jats:italic>\n                    , the latter two of which are reported in\n                    <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">B<\/jats:styled-content>\n                    ulgaria for the first time. Bird\n                    <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">DNA<\/jats:styled-content>\n                    was found in 50.6% of 95 investigated bloodmeals, whereas mammalian\n                    <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">DNA<\/jats:styled-content>\n                    was identified in 13.7%. Two\n                    <jats:italic>Culicoides<\/jats:italic>\n                    species were found to feed on both birds and mammals. There was remarkable diversity in the range of avian hosts: 23 species from four orders were identified in the abdomens of four\n                    <jats:italic>Culicoides<\/jats:italic>\n                    species. The most common bird species identified was the magpie,\n                    <jats:italic>Pica pica<\/jats:italic>\n                    (\n                    <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\n                    \u2009=\u20097), which was registered in all four ornithophilic biting midge species. Six bloodmeals from the great tit,\n                    <jats:italic>Parus major<\/jats:italic>\n                    , were recorded only in\n                    <jats:italic>C.\u2009alazanicus<\/jats:italic>\n                    . 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