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Influence of Larval Habitat Environmental Characteristics on Culicidae Immature Abundance and Body Size of Adult Aedes aegypti

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021
Aedes aegypti is adapted to live in close association with human dwellings, where it lays eggs in several man-made container types with a broad range of size, shape, and material.
Mariana R David   +1 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Artificial blood feeding for Culicidae colony maintenance in laboratories: does the blood source condition matter?

open access: yesRevista Do Instituto De Medicina Tropical De Sao Paulo, 2018
Culicidae colonization in laboratory is paramount to conduct studies aiming at a better understanding of mosquitoes' capacity to transmit pathogens that cause deadly diseases. Colonization requires female blood feeding, a necessary step for maturation of
L. Dias, L. Bauzer, J. B. Lima
exaly   +2 more sources

Molecular identification of mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) in southeastern Australia

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, 2016
DNA barcoding is a modern species identification technique that can be used to distinguish morphologically similar species, and is particularly useful when using small amounts of starting material from partial specimens or from immature stages.
Jana Batovska, Mark J Blacket
exaly   +2 more sources

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

open access: yesEuropean 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   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Checklist of the mosquito fauna (Diptera, Culicidae) of Cambodia

open access: yesParasite, 2021
Between 2016 and 2020, the Medical and Veterinary Entomology unit of the Institut Pasteur du Cambodge collected over 230,000 mosquitoes. Based on this sampling effort, a checklist of 290 mosquito species in Cambodia is presented.
P. Maquart   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Revision of the Atratus Group of Culex (Melanoconion) (Diptera: Culicidae)

open access: yesParasites & 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   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Key to the females of Afrotropical Anopheles mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae)

open access: yesMalaria Journal, 2020
In 1987, Gillies and Coetzee published a pictorial key for the morphological identification of adult female mosquitoes. Since then, several new species of anopheline mosquitoes have been described.
M. Coetzee
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Culicidae evolutionary history focusing on the Culicinae subfamily based on mitochondrial phylogenomics

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2020
Mosquitoes are insects of medical importance due their role as vectors of different pathogens to humans. There is a lack of information about the evolutionary history and phylogenetic positioning of the majority of mosquito species. Here we characterized
A. F. da Silva   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

West Nile Virus Mosquito Vectors (Diptera: Culicidae) in Germany

open access: yesViruses, 2020
In 2018, West Nile virus (WNV) broke out for the first time in Germany, with continuation of the epidemic in 2019, involving birds, horses and humans. To identify vectors and characterize the virus, mosquitoes were collected in both years in zoological ...
H. Kampen   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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