Mating and Pupal Attendance in Deinocerites cancer and Comparisons with Opifex fuscus (Diptera: Culicidae)

Provost, Maurice W.; Haeger, J. S.

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“…Behavior of Ae. maehleri more or less resembles to "early copulation" described for Culiseta inornata Williston (Rees andOnishi 1951, Lang 1977), Opifex fuscus Hutton (Marks 1958, Haeger andProvost 1965), Deinoserites cancer Theobald (Downes 1966, Provost and Haeger 1967, Conner and Itagaki 1984, and Aedes iriomotensis Tanaka & Mizusawa (Miyagi and Toma 1981). Males of these species have antennae of reduced plumosity, and copulation with a female just having emerged continues some minutes on the water surface.…”

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“…Early copulation in O. fuscus and D. cancer was regarded as a trait to lessen the risk of reproduction failure by dispersal from emerging sites, because their larvae inhabit brackish rock pools and crab holes, respectively, that exist discretely along a coastal line, (Marks 1958, Provost andHaeger 1967). Another hypothesis for O. fuscus is that severe maleÐmale competition due to excess males at the time of mating led to early copulation (Slooten and Lambert 1983).…”

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Unusual Life History Traits of Aedes (Stegomyia) Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) Inhabiting Nepenthes Pitchers

Mogi

2010

Annals of the Entomological Society of America

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Unusual life history traits of Aedes (Stegomyia) dybasi Bohart of Palau and Aedes (S.) maehleri Bohart of Yap, Micronesia, were observed in the laboratory. These species are unique in the subgenus Stegomyia in that they use pitchers of a carnivorous plant, Nepenthes mirabilis Druce, as larval habitats. Traits of Ae. dybasi were compared with two sympatric, container-breeding species, Aedes (S.) palauensis Bohart, a probable ancestor of Ae. dybasi, and Aedes (S.) hensilli Farner. Life history traits of Ae. dybasi differ distinctly from those of Ae. palauensis and Ae. hensilli in egg and adult stages as well as in the larva. The female is autogenous and lays a few but extremely large eggs that can neither resist desiccation nor postpone hatch. The latter two species take blood and produce many smaller eggs with desiccation resistance as usual in Stegomyia. Developmental time of eggs was shorter in Ae. dybasi, whereas that for larvae and pupae was longer. Ae. maehleri differs from other Stegomyia species in its early copulation, where males copulate with newly emerging females on the water surface. Females neither are autogenous nor take blood from human hands. Nepenthes pitchers that provide mosquito larvae with a unique environment could contribute to studying either converging or diverging patterns in mosquito evolution under phylogenic potential and constraints after acquisition of a new larval habitat.

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Unusual Life History Traits of Aedes (Stegomyia) Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) Inhabiting Nepenthes Pitchers

Mogi

2010

Annals of the Entomological Society of America

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“…6 Larvae were reared in 75% salt water (Instant Ocean, Foster & Smith, Inc., Rhinelander, WI ) diluted with 25% dechlorinated water. Mating of this species occurs on the water surface 27 ; therefore, pupae were transferred to a 30.5cm 3 cage with a flat pan containing 75% salt water where the adults emerged and mated. Newly emerged females are autogenous; thus, for experimental feeding they were provided with cotton coils soaked in fresh water for an oviposition substrate 3 days before the infectious blood meal.…”

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Vector Competence of New Zealand Mosquitoes for Selected Arboviruses

Kramer¹,

Chin²,

Cane³

et al. 2011

The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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* New Zealand (NZ) Endemic (E); NZ Introduced (I); non-NZ control (C) mosquito species. † Developmental stage at time of collection. ‡ Not applicable. GPS = global positioning system. 184KRAMER AND OTHERS and adults maintained as described previously. Females were fed weekly on defibrinated rabbit blood (Hema-Resources) sweetened with 10% sucrose. Eggs were collected weekly, allowed to embryonate, and stored in a small plastic bag in a closed container containing a moist sponge for humidity. When needed, the eggs were hatched under vacuum and larvae reared in low densities.Aedes albopictus. Eggs were kindly provided in April 2007 by D. Seversen, Notre Dame University. Mosquitoes were reared and maintained in a colony, and eggs stored as described for Ae. aegypti .Culex pipiens ( USA ) . A colony was established from mosquitoes collected by M. Hutchinson in 2002 in Pennsylvania. Mosquitoes were reared and adults maintained as described previously except mosquitoes were maintained in 46 cm 3 cages. Adult females were fed weekly on defibrinated goose blood (Rockland Immunochemical) sweetened with 10% sucrose.Culex quinquefasciatus ( USA ) . Mosquito larvae were provided by D. Fonseca, Rutgers University in 2008. The colony originated from Benzon Research, Inc. (Carlisle, PA) who obtained the mosquitoes from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. The adults were maintained at 26°C as described previously.Mosquito feeding preferences. Blood preference and optimum feeding time were determined before the vector competence assays for each mosquito species ( Table 2 ). A variety of defibrinated bloods were offered including guinea pig, sheep, rabbit, bovine, and goose using pledgets, sausage casing (porcine casing rinsed in the brine solution, knotted at one end, filled with the virus suspension, knotted, and warmed in a 30°C water bath), and membranes. The results ( Table 2 ) guided the subsequent feedings.Cells and viruses. Aedes albopictus cells (C6/36; ATCC CRL-1660) were grown in minimal essential medium (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA) supplemented with 10% fetal calf serum (Hyclone, Logan, UT), 2 mM L-glutamine, 0.3% sodium bicarbonate, 100 U of penicillin/mL, and 100 μg of streptomycin/ mL and 1 U of non-essential amino acids/mL. African Green monkey kidney cells (Vero; ATCC CC1-81) were grown in the same medium but without non-essential amino acids.The history of the 12 virus strains used in this study are listed in Table 3 . The viruses included five flaviviruses ( Flaviviridae , Flavivirus ): WNV, MVEV, DENV serotype 2 (DENV2), Yellow fever virus (YFV), and JEV; and four alphaviruses ( Togaviridae , Alphavirus ) BFV, RRV, CHIKV, and SINV. Viruses used in the vector competence assays were generally prepared on the day of use from a fresh harvest of infected C6/36 cells; however, several studies used virus thawed from a frozen stock with a known concentration of virus, as noted in Tables 4 and 5 .Vector competence assays. Peroral infection. All work with infectious blood meals was conducted in the BSL3...

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“…First, unlike many other mosquito species in which teneral females are refractory to insemination, newly emerged D.cancer are sexually receptive. Second, pupal attendance by adult males further increases the likelihood of females being inseminated early in their adult life (Provost & Haeger, 1967;Conner & Itagaki, 1984).…”

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Facultative blood‐feeding in the crabhole mosquito, Deinocerites cancer

O'Meara

Mook

1990

Medical Vet Entomology

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1. Most of the female crabhole mosquitoes Deinocerites cancer Theobald entering bait traps had undeveloped ovaries. 2. Nearly half of the D. cancer females that were captured in bait traps, but denied blood, were gravid following a 1 week holding period; they developed relatively small egg clutches autogenously (mean = 7.4 eggs per gravid female). 3. Although both parous and nulliparous D. cancer females were captured exiting from crabholes, only parous females were attracted to and collected in bait traps. 4. Much larger egg clutches (mean = 41.8 eggs per female) were produced anautogenously by mosquitoes that blood-fed on chickens. 5. All D. cancer females from field collected pupae developed eggs autogenously when allowed to mate and sugar feed in the laboratory. These mosquitoes produced an initial egg clutch with a mean size equivalent to that found in blood-fed, parous mosquitoes from bait traps. 6. In the field, mating and sugar feeding rather than blood-feeding seem to stimulate production of the initial egg clutch. 7. D. cancer blood-feeding appears to be delayed until after the first egg clutch has been laid; some parous crabhole mosquitoes are facultative blood feeders and can produce an egg clutch either with or without a blood meal.

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Mating and Pupal Attendance in Deinocerites cancer and Comparisons with Opifex fuscus (Diptera: Culicidae)

Cited by 29 publications

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Unusual Life History Traits of Aedes (Stegomyia) Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) Inhabiting Nepenthes Pitchers

Unusual Life History Traits of Aedes (Stegomyia) Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) Inhabiting Nepenthes Pitchers

Vector Competence of New Zealand Mosquitoes for Selected Arboviruses

Facultative blood‐feeding in the crabhole mosquito, Deinocerites cancer

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