Aedes ( Ochlerotatus ) lepidus (Cerqueira & Paraense, 1945) is reported from a cave in Templo dos Pilares Municipal Park, Mato Grosso do Sul state, Brazil. A single exploratory collection of culicids was carried out using CDC light traps on 16 November 2015. Four larvae and 11 adults (1♂, 10♀) were collected. The foundin water-filled hole stone. This the first record...

Tires and other water-holding containers throughout New York State were sampled during 2000 for the presence of immature or adult Ochlerotatus japonicus to determine the geographic distribution of this species. Waste tire stockpiles were one of the primary sites surveyed. Immature or adult Oc. japonicus were confirmed in 18 counties in New York State, including the northernmost recorded occurre...

background: mosquitoes lay eggs in a wide range of habitats with different physicochemical parameters. ecological data, including physicochemical factors of oviposition sites, play an important role in integrated vector management. those data help the managers to make the best decision in controlling the aquatic stages of vectors especially using source reduction. methods: to study some physico...

there is very little information about the mosquito fauna of mahshahr district. the present study gives an overview of data on the species composition and distribution of mosquitoes in the mahshahr district, khuzestan province, southwest of iran. in order to study the mosquito fauna, the samples were collected from may to november 2012 using dipping and total catch methods from seven village...

To identify the mosquito species competent for West Nile virus (WNV) transmission, we evaluated 10 California species that are known vectors of other arboviruses or major pests: Culex tarsalis, Cx. pipiens pipiens, Cx. p. quinquefasciatus, Cx. stigmatosoma, Cx. erythrothorax, Ochlerotatus dorsalis, Oc. melanimon, Oc. sierrensis, Aedes vexans, and Culiseta inornata. All 10 became infected and we...

To now, New Zealand has been spared arboviral diseases, except for the odd imported infection. However, two exotic vector mosquitoes (Ochlerotatus camptorhynchus and Ochlerotatus notoscriptus) have become established in New Zealand and the routine arrival of infected people from overseas may soon lead to local arboviral transmission. Large populations of wild wallabies and Brushtail possums cou...

Species diversity of mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) collections in carbon dioxide-baited light traps was investigated on Big Pine Key, Florida, from 2000 - 2004. Twenty species of mosquitoes were collected during this study, the most commonly collected being Anopheles atropos, Culex bahamensis, Deinocerites cancer, and Ochlerotatus taeniorhynchus. Ochlerotatus taeniorhynchus is the dominant spec...

The infectivity and pathogenicity of newly discovered baculovirus, CuniNPV (family Baculoviridae, genus Nucleopolyhedrovirus) originally isolated from the mosquito Culex nigripalpus Theobald, was evaluated in laboratory bioassys against thirteen species and four genera of mosquitoes native to the northeastern U.S. Purified virus at a dosage rate of 1.6 x 10(7) occlusion bodies/ml with 10 mM Mg2...

A group of black-legged mosquito species within the subgenus Ochlerotatus Lynch Arribalzaga, 1891 genus Aedes Meigen, 1818 is difficult to identify based on their morphology. This includes pionips Dyar, 1919, whose first record in Erzgebirge (Germany) reported this study. The objective was compile and add specific characters for morphological discrimination Ae. from similar mosquitoes order fac...

The viability of Ochlerotatus albifasciatus (Macquart) eggs stored at room temperature and at 5 degrees C was studied over 31 months. After 12, 18 and 31 months of storage, eggs were acclimatized at 22 degrees C for ten days, and then inundated twice every seven days. The effect of the storage period on the percentage of hatching was analyzed by one way ANOVA. Differences on the hatching respon...