Effect of mermithidae of the genus Hydromermis on the populations of blood-sucking mosquitoes of Eastern Kazakhstan
Deshevykh, N.D.; Gubaĭdulin, N.A.; Nurakhzhanova, G.N.
Meditsinskaia Parazitologiia i Parazitarnye Bolezni 49(4): 32-34
1980
ISSN/ISBN: 0025-8326 PMID: 6448338 Document Number: 159751
In Eastern Kazak larvae were of Aedes communis, A. diantaeus, A. pionips, A. pullatus and A. punctor mosquitoes were infected with H. mermitides. The intensity of infection did not change from 3-40%; from 1-8 larvae of H. mermitides parasitized mosquito larvae. In laboratory tests all infected larvae died within 8 days. From 11-44 of infected larvae and 61-95% of control larvae reached the imago stage. Larvae of A. communis, A. diantaeus and A. punctor mosquitoes are considered as new hosts of Hydromermis in Kazakh. In nature, 66.6% of the specimens developed pupae and 16.6% of A. diantaeus mosquitoes reached the imago stage.