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Notes on the ecology of Seychelles mosquitoes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

Frank L. Lambrecht
Frank L. Lambrecht
Affiliation:
World Health Organization, c/o P.O. Box 1505, Colombo 7, Ceylon
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Entomological investigations preliminary to a filariasis study were carried out over a period of eleven months in fourteen islands of the Seychelles group. Thirteen species of mosquitoes were found in collections of larvae from over 700 breeding places and occasional hand-catches of adults. These were: Aedes aegypti (L.), Ae. albopictus (Skuse), Ae. albocephalus (Theo.), Ae. (Skusea) sp. n., Ae. vigilax vansomerenae Mattingly ' Brown, Culex pipiens fatigans Wied., C. scottii Theo., C. simpsoni Theo., C. stellatus van Som., C. wigglesworthi Edw., Uranotaenia browni Mattingly, U. nepenthes (Theo.) and U. pandani (Theo.). Mansonia (Mansonioides)uniformis (Theo.), previously reported from the islands, was not found during the present survey.

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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 60 , Issue 3 , February 1971 , pp. 513 - 532
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1971

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