- Title
- Arid-adapted paradiaptomid copepods contribute to mosquito regulation
- Creator
- Cuthbert, Ross N, Wasserman, Ryan J, Dalu, Tatenda
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- 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, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- African Zoology, 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, African Zoology volume 55 number 3 185 186 2020 2224-073X
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Wasserman, Ryan J (Assoc Prof)
RU South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB)
SDG 14. Life Below Water
SDG 15. Life On Land
RU Department of Zoology and Entomology
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