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Olfactory responsiveness of Culex quinquefasciatus and Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae): Interactions between species, age and attractants

European Journal of Entomology, 2021
Invasive mosquitoes are vectors of important human and animal pathogens and a serious threat to public health. Aedes albopictus (Skuse) (Diptera: Culicidae) and Culex quinquefasciatus (Say) (Diptera: Culicidae) are good examples because of their wide ...
Andrea DRAGO, Giulia SPANÒ, Georgia FACCIONI, Elisa MASSELLA   +3 more
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Revision of the Atratus Group of Culex (Melanoconion) (Diptera: Culicidae)

Parasites & Vectors, 2020
Background Despite the importance of some species of Culex (Melanoconion) (Diptera: Culicidae) as vectors of several arboviruses that cause diseases in humans and other animals, there are few taxonomic studies focusing on species of the subgenus ...
Ivy Luizi Rodrigues de Sá, Rosa Sá Gomes Hutchings, Roger William Hutchings, Maria Anice Mureb Sallum   +3 more
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Impact of livestock on a mosquito community (Diptera: Culicidae) in a Brazilian tropical dry forest

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2015
INTRODUCTION: This study evaluated the effects of cattle removal on the Culicidae mosquito community structure in a tropical dry forest in Brazil.METHODS: Culicidae were collected during dry and wet seasons in cattle presence and absence between August ...
Cleandson Ferreira Santos, Magno Borges
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Biological Adaptations Associated with Dehydration in Mosquitoes

Insects, 2019
Diseases that are transmitted by mosquitoes are a tremendous health and socioeconomic burden with hundreds of millions of people being impacted by mosquito-borne illnesses annually.
Christopher J. Holmes, Joshua B. Benoit   +1 more
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Entomological profile and new registers of the genera Anopheles (Diptera, Culicidae) in a Brazilian rural community of the District of Coxipó do Ouro, Cuiabá, Mato Grosso

EntomoBrasilis, 2020
The order Diptera is constituted of insects that possess numerous varieties of habitats, these winged, commonly called mosquitoes, comprise a monophyletic group.
Adaiane Catarina Marcondes Jacobina, Jozeilton Dantas Bandeira, Fábio Alexandre Leal dos Santos, Elisangela Santana de Oliveira Dantas, Diniz Pereira Leite-Jr   +4 more
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Allelic variants of cytochrome P450 monooxygenases: Constitutive and insecticide-mediated expression in a Malaysian strain of the dengue vector, Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae)

European Journal of Entomology, 2016
Cytochrome P450s (P450s) involved in insecticide resistance reduce the efficacy of insecticide-based vector control by rendering vector control ineffective.
Fatma M.A. EL-GARJ, Mustafa F.F. WAJIDI, Silas W. AVICOR   +2 more
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Analysis of the Metaphase Chromosome Karyotypes in Imaginal Discs of Aedes communis, Ae. punctor, Ae. intrudens, and Ae. rossicus (Diptera: Culicidae) Mosquitoes

Insects, 2020
In this study, cytogenetic analysis of the metaphase chromosomes from imaginal discs of Aedes (Diptera: Culicidae) mosquitoes—Aedes communis, Ae. punctor, Ae. intrudens, and Ae. rossicus—was performed.
Svetlana S. Alekseeva, Yulia V. Andreeva, Irina E. Wasserlauf, Anuarbek K. Sibataev, Vladimir N. Stegniy   +4 more
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A survey of tire-breeding mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) in the Dominican Republic: Considerations about a pressing issue

Biomédica: revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud, 2020
Introduction: Discarded vehicle tires represent a serious threat both to the environment and to public health as they have the potential to harbor important mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) vectors.
Mikel A. González, María Altagracia Rodríguez-Sosa, Yohan Enmanuel Vásquez-Bautista, Elizabeth del Carmen Rosario, Jesús Confesor Durán-Tiburcio, Pedro María Alarcón-Elbal   +5 more
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Te fauna of mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) of Armenia [PDF]

Кавказский энтомологический бюллетень
An annotated list of 40 species of mosquitoes of the Republic of Armenia is presented. Te mosquito fauna was studied from March to December in 2021–2023 at 394–2142 m above sea level.
V.A. Burlak, Yu.V. Andreeva, O.V. Shcherbakov, V.S. Fedorova, E.S. Soboleva, M.K. Haidara, S.S. Alekseeva, R.V. Slobodyanik, H.S. Gevorgyan, S.A. Aghayan, G.N. Artemov   +10 more
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Features of Parasitization of Mosquitoes of the Species Culex Pipiens Culex Linnaeus, 1758 (Diptera, Culicidae) in the Kaluga Region

Российский паразитологический журнал, 2019
The purpose of the research is to study and systematize data on the biological, fauna-ecological characteristics of mosquitoes Culex pipiens Culex Linnaeus species in the Kaluga Region.Materials and methods.
F. I Vasilevich, A. M. Nikanorova
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