Fig. 1

Study area. a Map of Patagonia region (Argentina) showing the locations of the 26 mosquito larval habitats surveyed in this study in Neuquén (NQ), Río Negro (RN), Chubut (CH), Santa Cruz (SC) and Tierra del Fuego (TF) provinces. b Mean annual rainfall. c Mean annual temperature. d Mean annual wind speed. e Ecoregions. Software: QGIS v.2.14 [30]. Interprovincial boundaries, climatic variables and ecoregions were derived from data produced by the IGN [31], WorldClim v.2 [32] and Burkart et al. [33], respectively