Diversity of Culicidae and Tabanidae (Diptera) and new record of Uranotaenia sapphirina from the archaeological site of
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ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE
Diversity of Culicidae and Tabanidae (Diptera) and new record of Uranotaenia sapphirina from the archaeological site of X’cambó, Yucatan, Mexico Juan Navarrete-Carballo 1 & Daniel Chan-Espinoza 1 & Herón Huerta 2 & Emilio Trujillo-Peña 1 & José López-Platas 1 & Daniela Vivas-Pérez 1 & Kenia Damasco-Córdova 1 & Anuar Medina-Barreiro 1 & Hugo Delfín-González 1 & Pablo Manrique-Saide 1 & Abdiel Martin-Park 1,3 Received: 25 June 2020 / Accepted: 9 October 2020 # African Association of Insect Scientists 2020
Abstract Hematophagous flies belonging to the families Culicidae and Tabanidae, have played an important role in human health and domestic/wild and animal health. We performed weekly collections of active-flying flies of dipterans form the families Culicidae and Tabanidae with Malaise, CDC and BG-Sentinel traps during September to October of 2017 among different vegetation types characteristic of the archeological site of X’cambó located at north coast of Yucatan. A total of 656 specimens were collected. Culicidae presented the highest abundance (97.5%) and species richness (73%) in 14 species. The CDC trap was the most effective regarding species richness. Shannon entropy index showed that number of species predicted and observed were not significant among traps. Two Anopheles and one Aedes species were dominant for each trap. Uranotaenia sapphirina is a new record for Yucatan. This information will be valuable for conservation and vector surveillance purposes considering that coastal zones are unique/fragile ecosystems in serious risk of fragmentation and environmental contamination. Keywords Vegetation types . Malaise trap . Mosquitoes . Natural protected areas . Diversity analyzes
Introduction Diptera (flies, mosquitoes, and allied) taxa is one of the most diverse groups of insects, comprising ca.153, 000 species distributed among 180 families (Brown et al. 2009). In Mexico, 5500 species from 94 families have been described; but these estimations are probably obsolete. Diversity of Diptera is not only limited to species richness, but this order of insects also * Abdiel Martin-Park [email protected] 1
Unidad Colaborativa de Bioensayos Entomológicos, Departamento de Zoología, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Campus de Ciencias Biológicas y Agropecuarias, Km. 15.5 Carr. Mérida-Xmatkuil s.n., C.P. 97315 Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico
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Instituto de Diagnóstico y Referencia Epidemiológicos (InDRE), Secretaría de Salud, Francisco de P. Miranda 177, Ciudad de México, Lomas de Plateros, Mexico
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CONACYT - Unidad Colaborativa de Bioensayos Entomológicos, Campus de Ciencias Biológicas y Agropecuarias, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Km. 15.5 Carr. Mérida-Xmatkuil s.n., C.P. 97315 Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico
exhibit a large morphological and ecological diversity, which reflects a huge variety of adaptations (Fusari et al. 2018), especially those with hematophagous feeding behavior that are collectively responsible for numerous medically and agriculturally important diseases worldwide (Weaver et al
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