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Table 2 Total number of each mosquito species collected from each habitat (FI = forest interior, FE = forest edge, GR = grassland) in north Queensland and the pathogens they may transmit

From: Mosquito communities and disease risk influenced by land use change and seasonality in the Australian tropics

 

Wet Season

Dry Season

 

Species

FI

FE

GR

Total

FI

FE

GR

Total

Grand-total

Aedes alboscutellatus [?]

10

7

14

31

24

12

0

36

67

Aedes alternans [a]

1

5

4

10

0

0

0

0

10

Aedes kochi [a,d,e]

2

30

26

58

3

3

8

14

72

Aedes lineatopennis [a,g]

1

4

55

60

0

1

0

1

61

Aedes notoscriptus [a,b,d]

144

119

32

295

97

62

34

193

488

Aedes palmarum [?]

15

2

0

17

24

7

1

32

49

Aedes quasirubithorax [?]

0

0

3

3

2

0

0

2

5

Aedes quinquelineatus [?]

16

14

0

30

66

17

3

86

116

Aedes tremulus [a,b,]

10

2

3

15

3

1

0

4

19

Aedes vigilax [a,b,d,e]

86

106

108

300

45

57

71

173

473

Anopheles annulipes (s.l.) [a,c,d,e]

1

0

4

5

3

3

5

11

16

Anopheles bancroftii [c,e]

0

0

0

0

1

0

0

1

1

Anopheles farauti [b,c,e]

8

58

99

165

3

10

9

22

187

Coquillettidia nr.crassipes [c,f]

95

49

7

151

6

7

4

17

168

Culex annulirostris [a,b,d,e,g]

390

456

544

1390

38

77

125

240

1630

Culex bitaeniorhynchus [b,e]

0

1

0

1

0

0

0

0

1

Culex cubiculi [?]

0

0

0

0

0

1

0

1

1

Culex gelidus [a,b]

2

36

115

153

0

1

6

7

160

Culex hilli [?]

12

18

2

32

6

5

0

11

43

Culex pullus [b]

16

26

12

54

0

1

1

2

56

Culex sitiens [e]

5

6

12

23

10

5

7

22

45

Mansonia septempunctata [a]

5

4

27

36

0

1

3

4

40

Mansonia uniformis [a,b,e,f]

0

2

1

3

0

0

0

0

3

Tripteroides atripes [?]

0

1

0

1

0

0

0

0

1

Tripteroides magnesianus [?]

4

2

0

6

6

0

0

6

12

Tripteroides sp.

4

6

0

10

3

0

0

3

13

Verrallina carmenti [a]

20

4

0

24

13

27

3

43

67

Verrallina funerea [a,b,g]

0

1

0

1

0

0

0

0

1

Verrallina lineata [a]

353

193

71

617

31

41

10

82

699

Total

1200

1152

1139

3491

384

339

290

1013

4504

  1. a alphaviruses (may cause Barmah Forest, chikungunya, Ross River, Sindbis)
  2. b flaviviruses (may cause dengue, Murray Valley-, Australian-, Kunjin- & Japanese encephalitis; yellow fever, Edge Hill, West Nile)
  3. c Plasmodium spp. (may cause human and/or avian malaria)
  4. d Dirofilaria immitus (may cause dog heartworms)
  5. e Wuchereria bancrofti (may cause filariasis in humans)
  6. f Brugia malayi (may cause filariasis in humans)
  7. g Orbivirus spp. (may cause epizootic hemorrhagic disease in ruminants & macropods)
  8. ? unknown