Iquitos (urban sites)
Basic information
Sample name: Iquitos (urban sites)
Reference: J. T. Need, E. J. Rogers, I. A. Phillips, R. Falcon, R. Fernandez, F. Carbajal, and J. Quintana. 1993. Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) captured in the Iquitos area of Peru. Journal of Medical Entomology 30(3):634-638 [ER 2239]
Geography
Country: Peru
Coordinate: -3.7° S, -73.3° W
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest
Altered habitat: inhabited area
Protection: unprotected
Substrate: ground surface
MAT: 25.8
MAP: 3400.0
Habitat comments: "The typical vegetation outside the city is tropical rain forest, the mean annual temperature is >25ºC, and the annual rainfall exceeds 250 cm" and collections were "at various urban sites (plazas, cemeteries, and houses) within Iquitos"
climate data are for Iquitos and are from Paredes-Esquivel et al. (2016, Acta Tropica)
climate data are for Iquitos and are from Paredes-Esquivel et al. (2016, Acta Tropica)
Methods
Life forms: mosquitoes
Sampling methods: no design,baited,light traps,hand capture
Sample size: 2052 individuals
Years: 1988 - 1991
Sampling comments: "eight different capture methods were used intermittently in the three sylvan sites: modified canvas Shannon traps (Barretto & Coutinho 1940) used with light or human bait, CDC Model 512 traps (John W. Hock, Gainesville, FL) baited with light or dry ice, Davies' hamster-baited suction traps, No. 10 Trinidad chicken-baited traps, human bait catches, and resting place searches using hand-held aspirators"
Metadata
Sample number: 2287
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2016-10-18 19:39:19
Modified: 2020-01-14 05:03:30
Abundance distribution
20 species
3 singletons
total count 2052
geometric series index: 26.2
Fisher's α: 3.075
geometric series k: 0.6850
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.5631
Shannon's H: 1.3909
Good's u: 0.9985
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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