Comparative Sensitivity of Representative Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) to Repellents1
- 5 October 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Medical Entomology
- Vol. 20 (5) , 506-510
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jmedent/20.5.506
Abstract
The median effective dosages (ED50's) of 31 commercial and experimental repellents were determined for Anopheles stephensi, Anopheles albimanus, Aedes taeniorhynchus, Aedes aegypti , and Culex pipiens. Aedes taeniorhynchus and Cx. pipiens were significantly more sensitive to repellents than were Ae. aegypti and An. albimanus . Patterns of sensitivity to the 31 test compounds were not related to the taxonomic relationships of the species tested. Aedes aegypti , the traditional test species for repellent studies, was an exceptionally poor predictor for the responses of An. stephensi to repellents. Testing strategies are discussed for repellent screening programs and for testing specific and broad-spectrum repellents.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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- Studies of Mosquito and Other Biting-Insect Problems in AlaskaJournal of Economic Entomology, 1949