MOSQUITO LARVAE (CULICIDAE) AND OTHER DIPTERA ASSOCIATED WITH CONTAINERS, STORM DRAINS, AND SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS IN THE FLORIDA KEYS, MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA

We investigated the larval dipteran fauna of artificial and natural containers, sewage treatment plants, and storm drains in the Florida Keys. Mosquitoes collected were Aedes aegypti, Ae. albopictus, Anopheles crucians, Culex atratus, Cx. nigripalpus, Cx. peccator, Cx. quinquefasciatus, Deinocerites...

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Published in:The Florida entomologist 2004-06, Vol.87 (2), p.199-203
Main Authors: Hribar, Lawrence J, Vlach, Joshua J, DeMay, David J, James, Shannon S, Fahey, Jennifer S, Fussell, Edsel M
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
aquatic habitat
Catch basins
Cohabitation
containers
Culicidae
Diptera
drainage channels
insect ecology
Insect larvae
insect vectors
Larvae
larval habitat
larval habitats
medical entomology
Mosquito control
Mosquitos
Research Papers
sewage
Sewage treatment plants
species diversity
Storage containers
Storm sewers
vector surveillance
waste treatment
West Nile virus
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Summary:We investigated the larval dipteran fauna of artificial and natural containers, sewage treatment plants, and storm drains in the Florida Keys. Mosquitoes collected were Aedes aegypti, Ae. albopictus, Anopheles crucians, Culex atratus, Cx. nigripalpus, Cx. peccator, Cx. quinquefasciatus, Deinocerites cancer, Ochlerotatus taeniorhynchus, and Wyeomyia vanduzeei, as well as an unidentified Culex (Melanoconion) species and an unidentified Anopheles species. Other Diptera collected included a chironomid species in the Chironomus decorus Johannsen group; the filter fly, Clogmia albipunctata; an undescribed psychodid in the genus Austropericoma; a ceratopogonid midge, Dasyhelea pseudoincisurata; and a phorid fly, Megaselia scalaris.
ISSN:0015-4040
1938-5102
DOI:10.1653/0015-4040(2004)087[0199:MLCAOD]2.0.CO;2