Species Composition and Ecological Aspects of Immature Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) in Bromeliads in Urban Parks in the City of São Paulo, Brazil

• Main Authors: Walter Ceretti-Junior (Author), Rafael de-Ol (Author), Marco Rizzo (Author), Regina Claudia-Strobel (Author), Marco Otavio- (Author), Maria Helena- (Author), Aristides Fernandes (Author), Antônio Ralph-Me (Author), Gabriela Cristina- (Author), Mauro Toledo-Marrelli (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Tehran University of Medical Sciences, 2016-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Bromeliads can be epiphytic, terrestrial or saxicolous and use strategies to allow water to be re­tained in their leaf axils, where various arthropods can be found. These include mosquitoes, whose larvae are the most abundant and commonly found organisms in the leaf axils. The objective...