Human Blood-Feeding Rates Among Sympatric Sibling Species of Anopheles quadrimaculatus Mosquitoes in Northern Florida

Truls Jensen United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Medical and Veterinary Entomology Research Laboratory, Gainesville, Florida

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Andrew F. Cockburn United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Medical and Veterinary Entomology Research Laboratory, Gainesville, Florida

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Paul E. Kaiser United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Medical and Veterinary Entomology Research Laboratory, Gainesville, Florida

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Donald R. Barnard United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Medical and Veterinary Entomology Research Laboratory, Gainesville, Florida

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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.1996.54.523
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Volume 54: Issue 5
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523–525
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We compared rates of feeding on human hosts for blood-engorged female Anopheles quadrimaculatus species A, B and C1 collected from daytime resting sites in Manatee Springs State Park, Levy County, Florida during 1992–1993. Quick-blot DNA probes were used to identify mosquito taxa and also the presence of human blood in the mosquito gut. In collections from a campground area, human blood-feeding rates differed significantly among mosquito species (10.7% [19 of 177], 0%, [0 of 62], and 1.2%, [4 of 327]), respectively, for species A, B and C1). In collections from a woodland site (1 km from the campground), 1.5% (2 of 129) of the species B females had fed on humans, whereas none of 19 species A or 159 species C1 females had done so. Of the three species in this study area, species A appears the most likely to be a biting pest of humans and a vector of human malaria.

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Copyright © 1996 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 1996
Published Online:
May 1996
Cover The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
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0002-9637
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