Folia entomologica hungarica

Author(s): Trájer, A., Hammer, T. & Rengei, A.
Title: Trapping blood-feeding mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) in the first lethal canine dirofi lariasis site in Szeged, Hungary
Year: 2015
Volume: 76
Pages: 251-258.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17112/FoliaEntHung.2015.76.251

Abstract: Dirofi lariasis caused by Dirofi laria immitis (Leidy, 1856) is one of the most important mosquito-transmitted fi larioid infections in the Carpathian Basin and many parts of Europe. It can lead to lethal hearth infection in dogs and can be the source of serious diagnostic problems in humans. In August 2014 an exploratory mosquito collecting was performed for blood-fed mosquitoes in the site of the first known lethal canine dirofi lariasis, Szeged. Th e trapped mosquito material showed 95% dominance of Culex pipiens Linnaeus, 1758. Th e potential vectors of Dirofi laria immitis, Aedes vexans (Meigen, 1830) and Anopheles maculipennis (Meigen, 1818) mosquitoes were also present in the collected material. Ochlerotatus dorsalis (Meigen, 1830), a species associated with the lowland sodium-rich waters was also trapped. With 9 fi gures and 1 table.
Keywords: Culicidae, Culex pipiens, dirofi lariasis, mosquito trapping

Journal: Folia entomologica hungarica
Journal abbreviation: Folia ent. hung.
ISSN: 0373-9465
Publisher: Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest
Editor(s): Merkl, O.