Culex, Linnaeus, 1758

Atwa, Atwa A., Bilgrami, Anwar L. & Al-Saggaf, Ahmad I. M., 2017, Host-parasite interaction and impact of mite infection on mosquito population, Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 61 (2), pp. 101-106 : 102

Culex parasitized by parasitic mites

Mites preferred Culex species more than others. Seven species of mites parasitized 64.24% of collected individuals of mosquitoes. Arrenurus kenki and Pr. barbigera , each was parasitic on four species of Culex . Arrenurus acuminatus , Ar. danbyensis , Ar. madaraszi and Anystis sp. , each parasitized one species of Culex mosquito. Leptus sp. , infected two species of Culex , whereas, Cx. pipiens was parasitized by four species of mites i.e., Ar. acuminatus , Pr. barbigera , Leptus sp. and Anystis sp. , ( Table 3). Culex infula was parasitized maximally (74.0%). The mean infection intensity on Cx. pipiens was second to Cx. nigropunctatus , where it was highest (7.98) (p ≤ 0.05) with parasitic load ranging between 1 and 27. Mites preferred individuals of Cx. tritaeniorhynchus the least in terms of the number of host individuals parasitized (31.19%), mean infection rate (1.55) and parasitic load (1–2) ( Table 3).