Study of Culex tritaeniorhynchus and species composition of mosquitoes in a rice field in Greece

dc.contributor.author	Lytra, I	en
dc.contributor.author	Emmanouel, N	en
dc.date.accessioned	2014-06-06T06:53:08Z
dc.date.available	2014-06-06T06:53:08Z
dc.date.issued	2014	en
dc.identifier.issn	0001706X	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actatropica.2014.02.018	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://62.217.125.90/xmlui/handle/123456789/6385
dc.subject	Culex tritaeniorhynchus	en
dc.subject	Larvae	en
dc.subject	Paddy field	en
dc.subject	Seasonal abundance	en
dc.subject	Species composition	en
dc.subject.other	water	en
dc.subject.other	abundance	en
dc.subject.other	community composition	en
dc.subject.other	larva	en
dc.subject.other	mosquito	en
dc.subject.other	paddy field	en
dc.subject.other	population density	en
dc.subject.other	seasonality	en
dc.subject.other	species occurrence	en
dc.subject.other	aedes caspius	en
dc.subject.other	anopheles hyrcanus	en
dc.subject.other	anopheles sacharovi	en
dc.subject.other	article	en
dc.subject.other	controlled study	en
dc.subject.other	Culex piptens	en
dc.subject.other	Culex theileri	en
dc.subject.other	Culex tritaeniorhynchus	en
dc.subject.other	fauna	en
dc.subject.other	Greece	en
dc.subject.other	haplotype	en
dc.subject.other	immaturity	en
dc.subject.other	mosquito	en
dc.subject.other	nonhuman	en
dc.subject.other	nucleotide sequence	en
dc.subject.other	population abundance	en
dc.subject.other	population density	en
dc.subject.other	prevalence	en
dc.subject.other	rice	en
dc.subject.other	seasonal variation	en
dc.subject.other	species composition	en
dc.subject.other	species distribution	en
dc.subject.other	species identification	en
dc.subject.other	Uranotaenta unguiculata	en
dc.subject.other	Greece	en
dc.title	Study of Culex tritaeniorhynchus and species composition of mosquitoes in a rice field in Greece	en
heal.type	journalArticle	en
heal.identifier.primary	10.1016/j.actatropica.2014.02.018	en
heal.publicationDate	2014	en
heal.abstract	Mosquito species composition and seasonal abundance were studied in a rice field in western Greece over a three-year period (2009-2011). A total of 11,716 larvae and pupae of mosquitoes were recorded, representing seven species, namely Aedes caspius (Pallas), Anopheles hyrcanus (Pallas), Anopheles sacharovi Favre, Culex theileri Theobald, Culex tritaeniorhynchus Giles, Culex pipiens Linnaeus, Uranotaenia unguiculata Edwards and belonging to four genera. Cx. tritaeniorhynchus constituted the most abundant species. It is the second recorded occurrence of this species in Greece, but the first time that a high population of this mosquito species is recorded in the country. In all three years, the total population density of mosquitoes was found to be higher in early August. The number of immatures of all species was found higher in 2009 and 2010 than in 2011, as well was that of the Cx. tritaeniorhynchus adults derived from the rearing of the collected immatures. This regularity is probably due to the lack of water in the rice field in early August 2011. Cx. tritaeniorhynchus was found to be the most abundant species after the rearing of immatures representing 85.1%, 93.5% and 96.1% of the total number of the mosquito adults in 2009, 2010 and 2011, respectively. The rice culturing practices may have affected the seasonal occurrence of mosquito immatures in all of the study years. © 2014 Elsevier B.V.	en
heal.journalName	Acta Tropica	en
dc.identifier.issue	1	en
dc.identifier.volume	134	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1016/j.actatropica.2014.02.018	en
dc.identifier.spage	66	en
dc.identifier.epage	71	en