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KMID : 0438219770140030427
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Korea University Medical Journal
1977 Volume.14 No. 3 p.427 ~ p.432
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Studies on Overwintering Mosquitoes of Korea
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Abstract
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It has been known that a main vector of Japanese encephalitis in Korea is C. tritaeniorhynchus. There have been reports on the species and distribution of summer mosquitoes of Korea but no report on the species of overwintering mosquitoes yet.
The aims of this study were to investigate following problems.
1. To determine the species and distribution of overwintering mosquitoes in Korea.
2. To collect overwintering C. tritaeniorhynchus, a main vector of Japanese encephalitis in summer, in Korea.
The results are summarized as follows after 5 years of investigation on overwintering mosquitoes of Korea.
1. There were 4 species of mosquitoes in the caves, bushes, pine woods and fences during the winter of Korea, and the species and distribution are:
C. pipiens 96.7%
C. hayashii 2.9%
C. orientalis 0.2%
A. sinensis 0.3%
2. It was not found the overwintering C. tritaeniorhynchus at all in spite of concentrated effort to capture them.
The results of experiment showed that there were at least 4 species of overwintering mosquitoes in Korea for the first time.
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