Mosquitoes transmit many kinds of arboviruses (arthropod-borne viruses), and numerous arboviral diseases have become serious problems in Indonesia. In this study, we conducted
surveillance of mosquito-borne viruses at several sites in Indonesia during 2016–2018 for risk assessment of arbovirus infection and analysis of virus biodiversity in mosquito
populations. We collected 10,015 mosquitoes comprising at least 11 species from 4 genera. Major collected mosquito species were
Culex quinquefasciatus
,
Aedes albopictus
,
Culex tritaeniorhynchus
,
Aedes aegypti
, and
Armigeres subalbatus
. The collected mosquitoes
were divided into 285 pools and used for virus isolation using two mammalian cell lines, Vero and BHK-21, and one mosquito cell line, C6/36. Seventy-two pools showed clear
cytopathic effects only in C6/36 cells. Using RT-PCR and next-generation sequencing approaches, these isolates were identified as insect flaviviruses (family
Flaviviridae
, genus
Flavivirus
), Banna virus (family
Reoviridae
, genus
Seadornavirus
), new permutotetravirus
(designed as Bogor virus) (family
Permutotetraviridae,
genus
Alphapermutotetravirus
), and alphamesoniviruses 2 and 3
(
family
Mesoniviridae
, genus
Alphamesonivirus
). We believed that this large surveillance of mosquitoes and mosquito-borne
viruses provides basic information for the prevention and control of emerging and re-emerging arboviral diseases.