| Title: | Evaluation of Methods for Collecting Mosquitoes (Culicidae: Diptera) in Canopy and Ground Strata in the Brazilian Savanna |
| Author(s): | Mucci LF; Bergo ES; Deus JT; Reginato SL; Pereira M; Camargo-Neves VLF; |
| Address: | "Secretaria de Estado da Saude de Sao Paulo, Instituto Pasteur, Sao Paulo 01027-000, SP, Brazil" |
| DOI: | 10.3390/tropicalmed7120446 |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 2414-6366 (Electronic) 2414-6366 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "The hand-net is the standard method for capturing mosquitoes with sylvatic diurnal activity in disease outbreaks in Brazil. However, occupational risks and biases related to the collectors' abilities and attractiveness are important limitations. In this study, we compared hand-nets with automatic traps (CDC) associated to CO(2) and BG-Lure((R)) in the Vassununga State Park, a Brazilian Savanna protection area. The collections carried out over 27 days on the ground and the forest canopy. A total of 1555 mosquitoes were obtained in 20 taxa. The diversity index ranged between 1.12 and 1.79 and the dominance index from 0.22 to 0.40. The dominant species on the ground was Aedes scapularis (46.0%), and in the canopy, Hg. janthinomys/capricornii (31.9%). Haemagogus leucocelaenus was rare (n = 2). The hand-net resulted in the greatest diversity and abundance of species in both strata, followed by the traps associated with CO(2). A low degree of similarity was observed between the hand-net on the ground compared to the other capture methods. The use of BG-Lure((R)) alone resulted in a low number of specimens. In conclusion, the hand-net is still the method of choice for collecting arbovirus vectors in the diurnal period, especially yellow fever vectors" |
| Keywords: | Brazilian savanna canopy stratum diurnal mosquitoes kairomones; |
| Notes: | "PubMed-not-MEDLINEMucci, Luis Filipe Bergo, Eduardo Sterllino Deus, Juliana Telles de Reginato, Simone Luchetta Pereira, Mariza Camargo-Neves, Vera Lucia Fonseca de eng 2017/50345-5/Sao Paulo Research Foundation/ 2019-2021/Superintendencia de Controle de Endemias, Secretaria de Estado da Saude/ Switzerland 2022/12/23 Trop Med Infect Dis. 2022 Dec 19; 7(12):446. doi: 10.3390/tropicalmed7120446" |
