Diversidad de mosquitos (Diptera: Culicidae) de Jarabacoa, República Dominicana

Abstract

En República Dominicana tienen especial interés, dada su gran relevancia médica, las enfermedades transmitidas por mosquitos. La presente investigación profundiza sobre la diversidad de los culícidos existentes en el municipio de Jarabacoa, a fin de actualizar la información sobre estos dípteros y sus principales sitios de cría, naturales y artificiales. Para tal cometido, se procedió a la búsqueda activa de formas preimaginales mediante la técnica del dipper; se utilizaron pipetas plásticas para muestrear en reservorios de pequeño tamaño. La identificación se llevó a cabo mediante la utilización de lupa binocular y microscopio, con la ayuda de claves taxonómicas específicas. Se capturaron 16 especies pertenecientes a los géneros Aedes Meigen, 1818, Anopheles Meigen, 1818, Culex Linnaeus, 1758, Toxorhynchites Theobald, 1901, Uranotaenia Lynch Arribálzaga, 1891 y Wyeomyia Theobald, 1901, sobre las que se analizaron diversas cuestiones acerca de su bioecología y su papel en la transmisión de agentes patógenos de importancia médica. Se reporta Culex biscaynensis Zavortink & O’Meara, 1999 por primera vez en el Caribe insular, con lo que el número de especies de mosquitos citadas en el país se eleva a 50.

A survey of tire-breeding mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) in the Dominican Republic: Considerations about a pressing issue

“…On the other hand, the presence of Toxorhynchites ( Lynchiella ) portoricensis (von Röder) was occasional, although it seems to breed in tires more frequently than Dominican Anopheles spp. as noted in the literature 12 , 15 .…”

“…11 , and Rodríguez-Sosa, et al . 12 , showed that the accumulation of waste in public spaces allows the proliferation of mosquitoes of public health importance and Rodríguez-Sosa, et al . 13 , also observed this problem in the domestic environment.…”

“…In the Dominican Republic, several recent studies have identified mosquito-breeding hotspots. Borge de Prada, et al (11), and Rodríguez-Sosa, et al (12), showed that the accumulation of waste in public spaces allows the proliferation of mosquitoes of public health importance and Rodríguez-Sosa, et al (13), also observed this problem in the domestic environment. On the other hand, González,et al (14), showed the relevance of artificial containers as important urban foci with a high density of vector mosquito species in cemeteries.…”

Breeding Sites of Synanthropic Mosquitoes in Zika-Affected Areas of the Dominican Republic

“…albopictus were only found in outdoor containers, as also reported by Rodríguez-Sosa et al (2019a) in the Cibao region. Aedes albopictus shows an opportunistic feeding behavior on a wide range of hosts (Delatte et al 2010), in natural habitats and outdoor man-made containers (Rodríguez-Sosa et al 2019b). Larvae of Cx.…”

“…Although the interest in these mosquitoes has grown in recent times due to the impact of mosquitoborne diseases in the Caribbean, there is sparse up-todate information on mosquitoes in the Dominican Republic, except for several studies published recently in the Cibao region (Borge de Prada et al 2018;Diéguez Fernández et al 2019;González et al 2019;Rodríguez Sosa et al 2019a, 2019b. In this sense, a better knowledge of domestic breeding habitats occupied by mosquitoes would provide important epidemiological and anthropological information, with direct implications for health education, environmental awareness, and vector control.…”