Diversity and abundance of mosquitoes (Diptera, Culicidae) in a fragment of Amazon Cerrado in Macapá, State of Amapá, Brazil

Jose Ferreira Saraiva; Ahana Maitra; Raimundo Nonato Picanço Souto

doi:10.12741/ebrasilis.v13.e901

Authors

Jose Ferreira Saraiva Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Departamento de biodiversidade https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7813-2607
Ahana Maitra Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia-INPA, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Genética, Conservação e Biologia Evolutiva, Laboratório de Genética de mosquitos https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3697-8794
Raimundo Nonato Picanço Souto Universidade Federal do Amapá, Laboratório de Arthopoda https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8795-1217

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12741/ebrasilis.v13.e901

Keywords:

Arbovirus, malaria, mosquitoes, richness of species, Toxorhynchites haemorrhoidalis

Abstract

The Neotropical region has the highest diversity of species, but despite this diversity, this region presents many sampling gaps. The objective of this study was to study the diversity of the mosquitoes of family Culicidae (Diptera: Culicomorpha) as well as to identify the mosquito vectors, in a fragment of Amazon Cerrado in Macapá, Amapá. Three collection methods (Shannon trap, CDC and active collection) were used, and the samples were collected between January to December 2006. 21 species were identified; 11 of them being vectors of malaria, dengue fever, yellow fever, Zika, chikungunya and filariasis; and three of them, Toxorhynchites h. haemorrhoidalis (Fabricius), Wyeomyia melanocephala Dyar & Knab and Wyeomyia aporonoma Dyar & Knab were recorded for the first time from Amapá. The present study contributes to the diversity of mosquitoes (Culicidae) that can be used in additional mapping studies to mitigate epidemic outbreaks in the state of Amapá.

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