Sample name: Vellimalai kovil (October 2010)

Reference: S. Amala and V. Anuradha. 2012. Species composition and diversity of mosquitoes in selected areas of vellimalai in sirumalai hills. International Journal of Biological & Medical Research 3(1):1281-1283 [ER 2215]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest

Substrate: ground surface

WMT: 32.0

CMT: 19.7

MAP: 836.0

Habitat comments: "The annual mean temperature of this area varies during summer and winter from 250 C to 280C and 150C to 100C respectively. The rainfall in the region is a tropical dissymmetric type with the bulk of rain received during the retreating monsoon period (October – December)... The study area... has a perennial stream and a dam. The vegetations near the stream consists of trees like Ficus carica and shrubs like Lantana camera"
climate data are for Thoppampatti in Dindigul District and are from Sivasankari et al. (2014, Journal of Ethnopharmacology)

Life forms: mosquitoes

Sampling methods: no design,sweep nets,hand capture

Sample size: 55 individuals

Years: 2010

Sampling comments: "The adult mosquitoes were collected from the thick bushes using sweep net. Immature forms of mosquitoes were collected by dipper method... during Oct 2010-Feb 2011"

Sample number: 2253

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-09-04 14:36:18

Modified: 2016-12-18 05:04:54