Breeding and day resting habitats of Anopheles dirus in Assam, India.
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1997-09-30
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Longitudinal surveys at monthly frequency were carried out during 1995-1996 in a forest fringed village of district Dibrugarh, Assam to decipher the breeding and day resting habitats of Anopheles dirus. It regularly bred in small, shallow, rain filled, transient, shady or partly shady puddles/ground pools in the rainy months and in the perinneal streams in the adjoining forest of the village during dry months. In pools, the degree of interspecific association (0.238 +/- 0.174) and index of association (0.428) of An. dirus breeding was highest with Aedes caecus. An. dirus was completely exophilic and rested during day time in the forest mostly on tree trunks upto the height of 4-5 feet from the ground in dark moist niches avoiding direct sun light.
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The Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health.
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Prakash A, Bhattacharyya DR, Mohapatra PK, Mahanta J. Breeding and day resting habitats of Anopheles dirus in Assam, India. The Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health. 1997 Sep; 28(3): 610-4