Mosquito blood feeding plays a key role in epidemiology. Despite its importance and large
number of studies worldwide, less attention has been paid in South America. We …

Beginning about 80 years ago, the recognition of morphological varieties of mosquitoes was
gradually replaced by the recognition of subspecies. As an examination of revisionary and …

Many (re) emerging infectious diseases in humans arise from pathogen spillover from
wildlife or livestock, and accurately predicting pathogen spillover is an important public …

Abstract The Educator Group of the Melanoconion Section of Culex (Melanoconion)(Diptera,
Culicidae) is reviewed. Currently, the group includes the following valid species: Culex …

Millions of people around the world are infected with mosquito-borne diseases each year.
One of the most dangerous species is Aedes aegypti, the main vector of viruses such as …

Culex pipiens is the most cosmopolitan mosquito of the Pipiens Assemblage. By studying
the nature of interactions between this species and microorganisms common to its breeding …

Background Knowledge of immature habitats is an important focus for investigations of
mosquito community ecology, and may improve our understanding of how environmental …

Blood feeding patterns of mosquitoes are a key component in the dynamics of arboviral
encephalitides transmission. In temperate Argentina, the members of the Culex pipiens …

In an attempt to evaluate the susceptibility of the mosquito Culex quinquefasciatus to
bacterial agents, a population naturally infected with a Wolbachia pipientis w PipSJ native …

Mansonia titillans is distributed in the central-northern provinces of Argentina (Rossi 2015).
The females are very aggressive and can feed on several animals, including humans, which …