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Exigências térmicas de Culex quinquefasciatus (Diptera, Culicidae) em Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil

2004; Fundación Zoobotánica de Rio Grande do Sul; Volume: 94; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1590/s0073-47212004000200010

1678-4766

Paulo Bretanha Ribeiro, Paulo R. P. Costa a name top a, Alci Enimar Loeck, Élvia Elena Silveira Vianna, Paulo Silveira Júnior,

Malaria Research and Control

Thermal requeriments of Culex quinquefasciatus (Diptera, Culicidae) in Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.The thermal requeriments of Culex quinquefasciatus (Say, 1823) and the number of generations in the year are determined.The colony to obtain eggs, larvae, pupae and adults was established under laboratory conditions.Every stage was maintained at constant temperature (15, 20, 25 and 30 o C), in cameras, with relative humidity of 80% ± 5 and photophase of 12 hours, to settle down the thermal inferior limit and the thermal constant by the method of the hiperbole.The thermal inferior limit to phase of egg, larvae and pupa were respectively 10.0, 9.1 and 10.2 o C, and 10.2 o C to all the aquatic cycle, with a thermal constant of 207.2 degree-day, with the mean of 15.5 generations per year in Pelotas, State of Rio Grande do Sul.