[Mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) ecology in natural and artificial rural breeding places in northern Parana, Brazil. V. Larvae collection in artificial containers installed in ciliary forest].
BACKGROUND
The use of receptacles containing water for the laying of the Culicidae eggs in an anthropogenic area, may indicate a genetic plasticity that leads them evolutionarily towards domiciliation. Thus, the various species of Culicidae which colonize the receptables placed in reparian forest were collected for this study.


METHODS
The materials used were: Tires, plastic, can and bamboo receptacles, installed in a rural area of a reparian forest along a river in Northern Parana, Brazil.


RESULTS
The results were obtained by means of the collection of Cx.grup coronator, Cx. declarator, Cx. laticlasper, Cx. (Melanoconion), Cx. section Spissipes, Cx. mollis, Ae. terrens, Tr. compressum, Tr. pallidiventer, Hg. leucocelaenus, Cx. quinquefasciatus, Li. durhamii and Toxorhynchites sp larvae. The first five species were tire specific, while the two Trichoprosopon species were bamboo specific. Ae. terrens and Cx. mollis were collected both in tires and bamboo, Cx. bigoti was collected in tires, cans and bamboo, while Hg. leucocelaenus could only be found in cans. The last four species were collected in all kinds of receptacles. Cx. quinquefasciatus, Cx. eduardoi and Li. durhamii had significant population fluctuations.


CONCLUSIONS
Tires were characterized as the receptacle most acceptable to the Culicidae. The areas where the forest was the densest and the places where the soil was the most humid were the spots with the highest capture register.
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Departamento de Biologia Animal e Vegetal, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Brasil.
D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal; D001938:Brazil; D009033:Culicidae / Q000145:classification / Q000254:growth & development; D004463:Ecology; D017753:Ecosystem; D004772:Entomology / Q000379:methods; D007814:Larva / Q000254:growth & development; D011156:Population Density
Ecologia de mosquitos (Diptera: Culicidae) em criadouros naturais e artificiais de área rural do norte do estado do Paraná, Brasil. V. Coleta de larvas em recipientes artificiais instalados em mata ciliar.