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Table 1 Larval habitats and role in pathogen transmission of the main mosquito species detected in Doñana[31, 32, 37, 4042, 44, 65]

From: Climatic effects on mosquito abundance in Mediterranean wetlands

Mosquito species

Larval habitats

Vectorial competence (laboratory)

Field detection in Doñana

Role as WNV vector

Culex pipiens

Inundation areas

West Nile virus

West Nile virus

Enzootic and epizootic West Nile vector

Rice fields

Rift Valley virus

 

Man-made water bodies.

Nearly every kind of water source.

Culex perexiguus (univittatus)

Swamps

West Nile virus

West Nile virus

Enzootic and epizootic West Nile vector

Ponds

 

Usutu virus

Ground pools

Water wells.

Culex modestus

Irrigation channels

West Nile virus

 

Enzootic West Nile virus vector

Rice fields

Tahyna

Ground pools

Tularemia

Ponds

Marshes.

Culex theileri

Marshes

Dirofilaria immitis, West Nile virus

  

Ditches

Rift Valley virus Sindbis

Swamps

Rice fields

Ochlerotatus caspius

Halophilic species

West Nile virus

Mosquito Marsh virus

 

Salt marshes, Tidal coastal marshes

Tahyna Tularaemia

Ochlerotatus detritus

Halophilic species

   

Salt marshes, Tidal coastal marshes

Anopheles atroparvus

Canals

Malaria

  

Ditches

 

Marshes

Rice fields