Mosquitos (Diptera, Culicidae) capturados com isca humana em área preservada de Curitiba, Paraná

Abstract

ln a residual forest patch at Curitiba city, captures of culicidae were perfonned using human bait, at land levei, between 5 :00 to 9:00 hours p.m. The period covered 12 months, march-90 to march-91 and the captures lasted 108 hours. ln this per iodo were caught 18 specie distributed in nine genera. The four specie caught that made more than ten percent were Aedes (Och/ero/a/us) scapu/aris (Rondani, 1848), Cu/ex (Cu/ex) group carona/ar Dyar & Knab, 1906, Cu/ex (Cu/ex) quinquejasciatus Say, 1823 e Aedes (Och/ero/atus) crinifer (Theobald, 1903). The most frequent specie was Cu/ex carona/ar. Along the season, the best yield was at autumn. With regard to the meteorological pattem, Aedes scapu/aris showed a positive and significative association with the rainfall and so do Aedes crinifer with the mean telllperature. However, Cu/ex corolla/or e Cu/ex quin- qllejascia/lIs showed no association between air humidity and rainfall. During the time interval analised, bitting activity was performed firstly by Aedes scapu/aris and Aedes crinifer and then by Cu/ex carona/ar and Cu/ex quinqllejasciafus.