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VOL. 8, ISSUE 12 (2023)
Study on mosquito diversity (Diptera: Culicidae) in different pockets of Madurai district, Tamilnadu, India
Authors
P Yuvarani, R Umamaheswari, S Krishnamoorthy
Abstract
During the period of August 2014 to January 2015, a survey was
conducted for the present study. The results of the survey revealed that a
total of 169 organisms were collected from 15 different species belonging to 5
genera: Culex, Aedes, Armigeres, Anopheles, and Mansonia.
The prevalent species in the study areas are listed in Table 1. It is worth
noting that Armigeres and Mansonia were represented by only one
species each. Aedes, on the other hand, was represented by five species:
Aedes scatophagoides, Aedes pallidostriatus, Aedes aegypti, Aedes
albopictus, and Aedes vitatus. Similarly, Culex was represented by
five species: Culex vishuni, Culex quinquefasciatus, Culex tritaneorhyncus,
Culex infula, and Culex fucocephala. Anopheles, the last genus, was
represented by three species: Anopheles subpictus, Anopheles culcifaciens,
and Anopheles stephensi. The study also recorded various diversity
measures of mosquito fauna in Madurai during the study period from August 2014
to January 2015. These measures include the Simpson's index value (0.109),
Dominance index (0.891), Reciprocal Simpson's index value (9.176), Shannon's
index (3.49), Berger-Parker Dominance Index (0.207), Inverted Berger-Parker
dominance index (4.829), Margalef Richness index (2.729), Menhinick index
(1.51), Buzas and Gibson's Index (0.748), and Gini coefficient (6.08). In terms
of Beta diversity, the absolute beta value was 14, while Whittaker's and
Sorensen's index were both 1. The Routledge beta-R index was -5, the Jaccard
index was 100%, and the Mountford index was 15.38. Furthermore, the study found
that the maximum density of mosquito populations occurred in October, while the
minimum density was observed in August.
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P Yuvarani, R Umamaheswari, S Krishnamoorthy "Study on mosquito diversity (Diptera: Culicidae) in different pockets of Madurai district, Tamilnadu, India". International Journal of Entomology Research, Vol 8, Issue 12, 2023, Pages 1-3
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