Culicidae (Diptera, Culicomorpha) from the western Brazilian Amazon: Juami-Japurá Ecological Station

With 312 trap-hours of sampling effort, 1554 specimens of Culicidae (Diptera) were collected, using CDC and Malaise traps, in nine different locations along the Juami River, within the Juami-Japurá Ecological Station, Amazonas State, Brazil. A list of mosquito species with 54 taxa is presented, which includes three new distributional records for the state of Amazonas. The species found belong to the genera Anopheles, Aedeomyia, Aedes, Psorophora, Culex, Coquillettidia, Sabethes, Wyeomyia and Uranotaenia.

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Main Authors: Hutchings,Rosa Sá Gomes, Hutchings,Roger William, Sallum,Maria Anice Mureb
Format: Digital revista
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira De Entomologia 2010
Online Access:http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0085-56262010000400022
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