Seasonal abundance, biting cycle and parity of the mosquito Haemagogus leucocelaenus in Trinidad, West Indies
s.l; s.n; 1995. 372-6 p. ilus.
Monography
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TT5
Localização: TT5; QX 510 S439 1995
ABSTRACT
Adult female populations of Haemagogus leucocelaenus (Dyar and Shannon), the sylvan vector of yellow fever, were monitored weekly during 1981-82 by human collectors on the ground at Point Gourde in Chaguaramas Forest, 16 km west of Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. Hg.leucocelaenus showed only diurnal landing activity, from 06.00 to 18.00 hours (sunrise to sunset, universal time), with a single peak of activity between 10.00 and 14.00 hours. Densities of Hg.leucocelaenus during the wet season (May-November) were about double the level recorded during the dry season (December-April). Monthly parous rates averaged 53.9 percent (range 25-90 percent) and some females were up to five pars. Retained eggs (range 2-6, mean 4/female) were found in the ovaries of 0.34 percent of landing females, all of which had stage 1 ovarian follicles for the next gonotrophic cycle. Therefore blood-feeding is not inhibited by egg retention. Hg.leucocelaenus vector potential is reappraised in the light of these findings (AU)
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Assunto principal:
Paridade
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Trinidad e Tobago
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Febre Amarela
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Ciclos de Atividade
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História Reprodutiva
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Estatística
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Culicidae
País/Região como assunto:
Caribe
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Caribe ingles
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Trinidad y tobago
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En
Ano de publicação:
1995
Tipo de documento:
Monography