Aechmea distichantha (Bromeliaceae) Epiphytes, Potential New Habitat for Aedes Aegypti and Culex quinquefasciatus (Diptera: Culicidae) Collected in the Province of Tucumán, Northwestern Argentina

MARINA STEIN MARÍA J.DANTUR JURI , GRISELDA I. ORIA AND PATRICIA G. RAMIREZ

FLORIDA ENTOMOLOGIST

FLORIDA ENTOMOLOGICAL SOC

Lugar: Nueva York; Año: 2013 vol. 96 p. 1202 - 1206

0015-4040

Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti(Linnaeus) is a mosquito-associated with urban environments, and its larvae and pupae develop in a wide variety of artificial habitats (Forattini 1965). In the early 1960s, 17 countries and territories in the Americas, including Argentina, certified its eradication(Kerr et al. 1964). But a decade and a half later, they were re-colonized by Ae. aegyptidue to the abandonment of the vector control programs. In 1987, the vector was again detected in Argentina, and during the early 1990s it colonized 16 provinces and 580 of the 854 existing municipalities (Coto & Masuh 2003). This is the only vector responsible for dengue epidemics that have occurred in our country from 1997 to date, recording more than 25,000 cases of DEN-1 in 2009 (Ministry of Public Health 2009).