›› 2007, Vol. 25 ›› Issue (1): 19-78.

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Description of the Ecological Habits of Sergentomyia koloshanensis

WANG Jie1;GUAN Li-ren1;LIU Pi-zong2   

  1. 1 National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, WHO Col-laborating Center for Malaria, Schistosomiasis and Filariasiis, Shanghaii 200025, China; 2 The Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Ganshu Province, Lanzhou 730020, China
  • Received:1900-01-01 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:2007-02-28 Published:2007-02-28

Abstract: The ecological habit of Sergentomyia koloshanensis was investigated in Wenxian of Gansu Province and Nanping of Sichuan Province. This sandfly could be found from the last ten-day period of May to the first ten-day period of October, with a peak in the middle ten-day period of August. Its adult season covered as long as 4 and half months. It was exophilic with a vertical distribution reaching as high as 1 640 m. At daytime, it rested in the caves and at the basal parts of boulders along the riversides, and it was difficult to find it in the residential areas; at night it moved about near the resting places, without human blood preferrence. By analyzing the available data of the description of sandfly species, it was found that Sergentomyia koloshanensis distributed mainly in the subtropical zone in China, with much less distribution in warm-temperate and marginal tropical areas.

Key words: Sergentomyia koloshanensis, Ecology, Habits