2. Classification of CQV:
The order Bunyavirales is found to have more than 350 viruses with tripartite, negative-sense, single-stranded RNA (ssRNA) genomes, belonging to 9 viral families. The members of the Feraviridae, Phenuiviridae, Fimoviridae, Nairoviridae, Peribunyaviridae, Tospoviridae, Jonviridae and Phasmaviridae families are carried and transmitted through arthropods, while the viruses of theHantaviridae family are carried by rodents and are transmitted through the communication of aerosolized excreta(Elliott, 2013; Whitmer et al., 2018). Fimoviridae and Tospoviridae family viruses infect plants, while the viruses of family Nairoviridae ,Peribunyaviridae , and Phenuiviridae can transmit the disease to vertebrates. Genus Orthobunyavirus is the largest genus in the Peribunyaviridae family that contains more than 170 viruses. Orthobunyaviruses are categorized into 49 species and 19 serogroup complexes (Briese et al., 2013; Maes et al., 2018),consisting of extremely diverse arboviruses (Nguyen et al., 2013). Simbu serogroup has been the largest of these with 25 viruses isolated till date (Ladner et al., 2014) and with seven species complexes such asAkabane, Simbu, Oropouche, Shuni, Sathuperi, Shamonda, andManzanilla (Zhang et al., 2015; Saeed et al., 2001). CQV is one of the members of theManzanilla species complex belonging to the Simbu serogroup (Figure 1).