A survey of the mosquito and Culicoides faunas at two localities in the Karoo region of South Africa with some observations on bionomics
| dc.contributor.author | Jupp, P.G. | |
| dc.contributor.author | McIntosh, B.M. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Nevill, E.M. | |
| dc.contributor.editor | Bigalke, R.D. | |
| dc.contributor.editor | Cameron, Colin McKenzie | |
| dc.contributor.editor | Gilchrist, Frances M.C. | |
| dc.contributor.editor | Morren, A.J. | |
| dc.contributor.editor | Verster, Anna J.M. | |
| dc.contributor.editor | Verwoerd, Daniel Wynand | |
| dc.contributor.editor | Walker, Jane B. | |
| dc.contributor.other | Steyn, P.J.J | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-07-06T12:07:08Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-07-06T12:07:08Z | |
| dc.date.created | 2016 | |
| dc.date.issued | 1980 | |
| dc.description | The articles have been scanned in colour with a HP Scanjet 5590; 300dpi. Adobe Acrobat XI Pro was used to OCR the text and also for the merging and conversion to the final presentation PDF-format. | en_ZA |
| dc.description.abstract | The mosquito and Culicoides faunas were surveyed at Bethulie and Luckhoff in the arid Karoo region, southern Orange Free State, to determine which species occurred, their relative prevalence and the effects of rainfall. The feeding preferences of these insects were also investigated by means of baited catches. Twenty-three mosquito species and 16 Culicoides species were collected. The commonest mosquito species, with their feeding preferences, if known, were as follows: Culex (Culex) univittatus Theo and Culex (Culex) pipiens Linnaeus, which are strongly ornithophilic and poorly anthropophilic; Culex (Culex) theileriTheo, which feeds on sheep and man avidly but is only moderately ornithophilic; Aedes (Neomelaniconion) luridus McIntosh, Aedes (Neomelaniconion) lineatopennis (Ludlow), Aedes (Ochlerotatus) caballus (Theo) and Aedes (Ochlerotatus) juppi McIntosh, all of which feed on sheep and man readily and which can aestivate as eggs for up to 20 months but only appear in numbers after rain; Anopheles (Cellia) listeri De Meillon, Anopheles (Cellia) squamosus Theo, Culex (Culex) quinquefasciatus Say and Culiseta (Allotheobaldia) longiareolata (Macquart). By far the commonest Culicoides at both localities was Culicoides pycnostictus Ingram & Macfie, which is strongly ornithophilic and also feeds on sheep. The following 5 species were also prevalent: Culicoides similis Carter,Ingram & Macfie, Culicoides spec. nov. 1., Culicoides schultzei (Enderlein), Culicoides ondersteportensis Fiedler and Culicoides nivosus De Meillon. The last species is strongly ornithophilic. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Jupp, PG, McIntosh, BM & Nevill, EM 1980, 'A survey of the mosquito and Culicoides faunas at two localities in the Karoo region of South Africa with some observations on bionomics’, Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 1-6. | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0330-2465 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/53790 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher | Published by the Government Printer, Pretoria. | en_ZA |
| dc.rights | ©1980 ARC - Ondersterpoort and Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria (original). ©2016 University of Pretoria Department of Library Services (digital). | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Veterinary medicine | en_ZA |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Veterinary medicine -- South Africa | |
| dc.title | A survey of the mosquito and Culicoides faunas at two localities in the Karoo region of South Africa with some observations on bionomics | en_ZA |
| dc.title.alternative | Une enquete des Faunes de Moustiques et de Culicoides dans deux localites de la region du Karoo en Afrique du Sud avec certaines observations Ecologiques | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Article | en_ZA |