title: [Biological characteristics of mosquitoes of the Culex pipiens complex (Culicidae) in Abkhazia].
abstract: A high abundance of C. p. pipiens and C. p. molestus in the town of Sukhumi and its vicinity was recorded from June to October. According to siphonal indexes the 4-th-stage larvae of these mosquitoes differ from each other rather insignificantly. The females of C. p. pipiens exhibit a high fecundity within a warm period of the year which sharply falls by the autumn. During a two-year experiment with a basement micropopulation of C. p. molestus from a non-autogenous form of C. pipiens there was established a gradual increase in the number of autogenous and stenogamic individuals. At the carbohydrate feeding the majority of the first autogenous females with ripe eggs are at the 3-rd -4-th stage of obesity.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001695:Biology; D003465:Culex / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D005298:Fertility; D005846:Georgia (Republic); D007814:Larva / Q000502:physiology; D012621:Seasons
vernacular_title: Biologicheskie osobennosti komarov kompleksa Culex pipiens (Culicidae) v Abkhazii.