Snail shells as larval habitats of Limatus durhamii (Diptera: Culicidae) in the Yungas of Argentina.

MANGUDO, C.; CAMPOS, R.E.; ROSSI, G.C.; GLEISER, R.M.

ACTA TROPICA

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV

Lugar: Amsterdam; Año: 2017 vol. 167 p. 204 - 207

0001-706X

The shells of dead snails collect water from rainfalls producing aquatic microenvironments called gas-trotelmata. These habitats are small and hold simple detritus based on animal communities, being rotifersand culicids the most studied. Although a high diversity of aquatic microhabitats has been reported aslarval habitats of mosquitoes in Argentina, the shell of snails has not been investigated yet. We reportthe shells of three species of native Megalobulimus genus as larval habitats of a neotropical mosquitoand suspected vector of bunyaviruses, Limatus durhamii, and describe these microhabitats in the Yungasforest of Argentina