Psorophora cingulata (Fabricius, 1805)
Cattle trough where immature stages of Psorophora cingulata develop (Photo: M. Laurito).
Geographic distribution
Distribution
Record
- Argentina
- Buenos Aires
- Chaco
- Corrientes
- Entre Ríos
- Formosa
- Jujuy
- La Pampa
- La Rioja
- Misiones
- Santa Fe
- Uruguay
Other distribution
Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Mexico, Montserrat, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Saint Lucia, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela
- apicalis Theobald
- garciai Levi-Castillo
- indoctum Dyar and Knab
- neoapicalis Theobald
Records of this species for Chaco, Corrientes and Entre Ríos Provinces are based only on the distribution map of Carcavallo & Martínez (1968a) (Mitchell & Darsie, 1985).
Disease relations: Specimens of Psorophora cingulata were found naturally infected with the Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis virus during 2003-2004 in Chaco Province, Argentina (Pisano et al., 2010). Ilheus virus was isolated from a pool of Psorophora spp. mosquitoes from Trinidad, where Psorophora cingulata was present (Anderson et al., 1956). This mosquito species have the ability to adapt to anthropogenic environments, and this feature could have major epidemiological implications (Lopes & Lozovei, 1996).
Disease relations: Specimens of Psorophora cingulata were found naturally infected with the Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis virus during 2003-2004 in Chaco Province, Argentina (Pisano et al., 2010). Ilheus virus was isolated from a pool of Psorophora spp. mosquitoes from Trinidad, where Psorophora cingulata was present (Anderson et al., 1956). This mosquito species have the ability to adapt to anthropogenic environments, and this feature could have major epidemiological implications (Lopes & Lozovei, 1996).
Larvae were collected from natural water bodies at ground level in La Rioja Province, as well as clear pools of rainwater, with flooded grass at tree shadows in a peri-urban environment in Chaco Province (Apumaita et al., 2023), both Argentina. Immatures of Psorophora cingulata were found with Culex species and Psorophora cyanescens (Apumaita et al., 2023).
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- ROSSI, G. C., MARTÍNEZ, M. 2013. Lista de especies y clave ilustrada para la identificación de larvas de mosquitos (Diptera: Culicidae) halladas criando en recipientes artificiales en Uruguay. Boletín de la Sociedad Zoológica del Uruguay (2ª época) 22 (2): 49-65.
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- APUMAITA, J. M., LINARES, M. A., MOLINA, G. A., VISINTIN, A. M., ROSSI, G. C., STEIN, M., SICHES, J. A., ALMIRÓN, W. R. 2023. Update of the geographical distribution and new records of the fauna of Culicidae (Diptera) of northwestern Argentina. Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina. 82 (1): 68-77.
