Castillo QRM, Pérez MMG, Larrea ALR, González BR, Figueredo SD

Language: Spanish
References: 12
Page: 652-659
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ABSTRACT

An investigation was carried out in Sevilla town, located in the coastal municipality of Guamá, Santiago de Cuba, to identify the species of insects affecting this population, as well as their main breeding sources and the periods of the adults' greater hematophagus activity, for directing efficiently the strategies to control vectors. To achieve this, larvae entomological interviews and captures of mature insects on human bait were carried out. Leptoconops becquaerti (Kieffer) was identified as the species of greater hematophagus activity during daily hours, with more incidence between 09.30 and 11.30 hours. It was concluded that this new report of the province, and particularly of the mentioned site, constitutes a very useful element from the entomological, hygienic-epidemiological points of view, because gnats are important viral encephalitis and other infectious agents transmitters, as phylarias and diverse protozoos.

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