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Studies on mosquitos (Diptera, Culicidae) biting birds, using twenty-four-hour catches, in the Entebbe area, Uganda

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

M. C. Williams
M. C. Williams
Affiliation:
The East African Virus Research Institute, Entebbe, Uganda.
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Series of 24-hour catches at different levels were made at Zika and Lunyo in the Entebbe area, Uganda, using fowls (White Leghorn cocks) as bait, and some comparative catches were made with man as bait.

Thirty-seven different mosquito species (including five species groups) were taken on the avian bait.

The vertical distributions and biting cycles of each of nine species (including one species group), Anopheles implexus (Theo.), Mansonia (Coquillettidia) aurites (Theo.) gp., M. (C.) fuscopennata (Theo.), M. (Mansonioides) africana (Theo.), Hodgesia cyptopus Theo., Aedes africanus (Theo.), A. apicoargenteus (Theo.), A. ingrami Edw. and Culex annulioris Theo. were similar on human and avian bait.

At Lunyo both A. africanus and C. annulioris had a marked diurnal peak, which had not been described previously.

Comparison of the numbers coming to avian and human bait indicate that species of Culex, H. cyptopus and most of the species of Mansonia (Coquillettidia) have a preference for birds.

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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 54 , Issue 3 , November 1963 , pp. 407 - 424
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1963

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