Arid-adapted paradiaptomid copepods contribute to mosquito regulation

Cuthbert, Ross N; Wasserman, Ryan J; Dalu, Tatenda

Title: Arid-adapted paradiaptomid copepods contribute to mosquito regulation
Creator: Cuthbert, Ross N
Creator: Wasserman, Ryan J
Creator: Dalu, Tatenda
Subject: To be catalogued
Date Issued: 2020
Date: 2020
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/443260
Identifier: vital:74103
Identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/10520/ejc-afzoo-v55-n3-a1
Description: We are writing to describe the predatory potential of calanoid copepods for the regulation of mosquito larval populations in aquatic environments. Mosquito-borne diseases continue to drive unparalleled human morbidity and mortality (Ferguson 2018), and directly threaten other wildlife (George et al. 2015). This disease burden is most concentrated in Sub-Saharan Africa, where aquatic habitats exploited by mosquitoes are often temporary and, under natural conditions, characterised by arid-adapted ecological communities. These communities can be predator rich, contributing to the regulation of aquatic larval mosquito populations and therefore the adult vectors of the diseases at the landscape scale. A newly described southern African copepod species, Lovenula raynerae Suárez-Morales, Wasserman and Dalu 2015 (Paradiaptominae) (Figure 1), has been identified as an efficacious predatory agent for the natural regulation of medically important mosquito populations in temporary aquatic environments (Cuthbert et al. 2018).
Format: 2 pages
Format: pdf
Language: English
Relation: African Zoology
Relation: Cuthbert, R.N., Wasserman, R.J. and Dalu, T., 2020. Arid-adapted paradiaptomid copepods contribute to mosquito regulation. African Zoology, 55(3), pp.185-186
Relation: African Zoology volume 55 number 3 185 186 2020 2224-073X
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