culicine


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culicine

(ˈkjuːlɪˌsaɪn)
n
(Zoology) another word for culex
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The larvae habitat features, like its permanent or temporary nature, artificial or natural, basic type, substrate type and vegetation, anopheline and culicine larval presence and density, were noted.
Effectiveness of transfluthrin-impregnated insecticide (paper rambo) and mechanical screening against culicine and anopheline mosquito vectors in Kumbotso, Kano, Nigeria.
(2,3) It is a mosquito borne disease transmitted by Culicine mosquitoes, most notably by Culex tritaeniorhynchus & Culex vishnui and occasionally caused by Culexgelidus, Culex fuscocephala, Culex annulus and Culex annulirostris.
Such technology has been successfully used in different regions (Zhou et al., 2007; Rohani et al., 2010; Sallam et al., 2013) for some Anopheline and Culicine mosquito vectors of diseases.
Culicine mosquitoes (eg, Aedes species, Culex species) are the intermediate hosts for Plasmodium and transmit the organisms to the avian definitive hosts.
Densities of Anopheles and culicine mosquitoes and the number of malaria cases were analyzed to serve as the entomological and epidemiological indicators of change during the projects' implementation period.
Fine structure of antennal sensilla coeloconica of culicine mosquitoes.
(2003) has preliminarily tested it against some culicine and anopheline mosquito showing promising effects.
Apart from Anopheles species, more than 200 Culicine mosquitoes were also caught resting either indoors or outdoors and breeding in the sites where the vector mosquitoes were found.