TY - JOUR
T1 - Control of the mosquito Anopheles pseudopunctipennis (Diptera: Culicidae) with Romanomermis iyengari (Nematoda: Mermithidae) in Oaxaca, Mexico
AU - Pérez-Pacheco, Rafael
AU - Rodríguez-Hernández, Cesáreo
AU - Lara-Reyna, Joel
AU - Montes-Belmont, Roberto
AU - Ruiz-Vega, Jaime
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Dr. Edward G. Platzer of the University of California, Riverside, USA, for suggesting valuable corrections to the manuscript, the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation for financial support under Project P97.04.01.03, the CONACYT under Project No. 1561PB, and Gonzalo Flores, Sabino Martinez and the staff of the “Paludismo program” of SSA-Oaxaca for the support given in the field studies.
PY - 2005/1
Y1 - 2005/1
N2 - We evaluated the effect of monthly applications of Romanomermis iyengari on populations of larval stages of the mosquito Anopheles pseudopunctipennis, in an endemic area of malaria in Pochutla, Oaxaca, Mexico. In 1999, applications of R. iyengari were made for 9 months on four natural breeding sites of An. pseudopunctipennis with a total area of approximately 30,000 m 2. An application rate of 3000 nematodes m -2 was used. Parasitism of mosquito larvae ranged from 46 to 100%, and the population reduction of the mosquito larvae varied from 38.1 to 99.8%. In two breeding sites R. iyengari was able to recycle and persisted for 5 months. The monthly applications of R. iyengari efficiently controlled the populations of larval An. pseudopunctipennis, thus reducing the risk of malaria transmission to people living nearby breeding sites.
AB - We evaluated the effect of monthly applications of Romanomermis iyengari on populations of larval stages of the mosquito Anopheles pseudopunctipennis, in an endemic area of malaria in Pochutla, Oaxaca, Mexico. In 1999, applications of R. iyengari were made for 9 months on four natural breeding sites of An. pseudopunctipennis with a total area of approximately 30,000 m 2. An application rate of 3000 nematodes m -2 was used. Parasitism of mosquito larvae ranged from 46 to 100%, and the population reduction of the mosquito larvae varied from 38.1 to 99.8%. In two breeding sites R. iyengari was able to recycle and persisted for 5 months. The monthly applications of R. iyengari efficiently controlled the populations of larval An. pseudopunctipennis, thus reducing the risk of malaria transmission to people living nearby breeding sites.
KW - Anopheles pseudopunctipennis
KW - Biological control
KW - Mermithid nematode
KW - Mosquitoes
KW - Romanomermis iyengari
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U2 - 10.1016/j.biocontrol.2004.09.005
DO - 10.1016/j.biocontrol.2004.09.005
M3 - Artículo
SN - 1049-9644
VL - 32
SP - 137
EP - 142
JO - Biological Control
JF - Biological Control
IS - 1
ER -