Sample name: Iquitos (sylvan 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]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

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... Site 1 was a large wooded area on the grounds of the Peruvian Naval Hospital, located just north of Iquitos. Sites 2 and 3, Quisto Cocha Army Base and Puerto Almendras, respectively, are located approximately 20 and 25 km WSW of Iquitos, respectively... In both of those locations, trapping was conducted in jungle >1 km from human habitation"
climate data are for Iquitos and are from Paredes-Esquivel et al. (2016, Acta Tropica)

Life forms: mosquitoes

Sites: 3

Sampling methods: no design,baited,light traps,hand capture

Sample size: 33161 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"

Sample number: 2286

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-10-18 19:29:44

Modified: 2016-12-19 10:23:18