The response of Culex quinquefasciatus (Diptera: Culicidae) to traps baited with carbon dioxide, 1-octen-3-ol, acetone, butyric acid and human foot odour in Tanzania

Bulletin of Entomological Research

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 155-159

  Mboera, L E G ^a   Takken, W ^b   Sambu, E Z ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CULEX PIPIENS QUINQUEFASCIATUS; CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS; CULICIDAE; DIPTERA;

EID: 0034049705     PISSN: 00074853     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0007485300000262     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Becker, N., Zgomba, M., Petric, D. & Ludwig, M. (1995) Comparison of carbon dioxide, octenol, and a host-odour as mosquito attractants in the upper Rhine Valley, Germany. Medical and Veterinary Entomology 9, 377-380.
2. Bowen, M.F. (1995) Sensilla basiconica (grooved pegs) on the antennae of female mosquitoes: electrophysiology and morphology. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 77, 233-238.
3. Bursell, E., Gough, A.J.E., Beevor, P.S., Cork, A., Hall, D.R. & Vale, G.A. (1988) Identification of components of cattle urine attractive to tsetse flies, Glossina spp. (Diptera: Glossinidae). Bulletin of Entomological Research 78, 281-291.
4. Carlson, D.A., Smith, N., Gouck, H.K. & Godwin, D.R. (1973) Yellow fever mosquitoes: compounds related to lactic acid that attract females. Journal of Economic Entomology 66, 329-331.
5. Cork, A. (1996) Olfactory basis of host location by mosquitoes and other haematophagous Diptera. pp. 71-88 in Cardew, G. (Ed.) Olfaction in mosquito-host interactions. Ciba Foundation Symposium No. 200, Chichester, Wiley.
6. Cork, A. & Park, K.C. (1996) Identification of electrophysiologi cally-active compounds for the malaria mosquito, Anopheles gambiae, in human sweat extracts. Medical and Veterinary Entomology 10, 269-276.
7. Costantini, C., Gibson, G., Sagnon, N., Della Torre, A., Brady, J. & Coluzzi, M. (1996) Mosquito responses to carbon dioxide in a West African Sudan savanna village. Medical and Veterinary Entomology 10, 220-227.
8. Dekker, T. & Takken, W. (1998) Differential responses of mosquito sibling species Anopheles arabiensis and An. quadriannulatus to carbon dioxide, a man or a calf. Medical and Veterinary Entomology 12, 136-140.
9. Geier, M., Sass, H. & Boeckh, J. (1996) A search for components in human body odour that attract females of Aedes aegypti. pp. 132-148 in Cardew, G. (Ed.) Olfaction in mosquito-host interactions. Ciba Foundation Symposium No. 200, Chichester, Wiley.
10. Gibson, G. (1996) Genetics, ecology and behaviour of anophelines. pp. 22-45 in Cardew, G. (Ed.) Olfaction in mosquito-host interactions. Ciba Foundation Symposium No. 200, Chichester, Wiley.
11. Gillies, M.T. (1988) Anopheline mosquitoes: vector behaviour and bionomics. pp. 453-485 in Wernsdorfer, W.H. & McGregor, I. (Eds) Malaria principles and practice of malariology. Edinburgh Churchill Livingstone.
12. Haddow, A.J. (1942) The mosquito fauna and climate of native huts at Kisumu, Kenya. Bulletin of Entomological Research 33, 91-142.
13. Hall, D.R., Beevor, P.S., Cork, A., Nesbitt, B.F. & Vale, G.A. (1984) 1-octen-3-ol: a potent olfactory stimuli and attractant for tsetse isolated from cattle odours. Insect Science and its Application 5, 335-339.
14. Hassanali, A., McDowell, P.C., Owaga, M.L.A. & Saini, R.K. (1986) Identification of tsetse attractants from excretory products of a wild host animal, Syncerus caffer. Insect Science and its Application 7, 5-9.
15. Ikeshoji, T. (1993) Attractive physical and chemical stimuli for mosquito control. Sumitomo Pyrethroid World, Spring issue, pp. 3-8.
16. Kline, D.L. (1994) Olfactory attractants for mosquito surveillance and control: 1-octen-3-ol. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association 10, 280-287.
17. Kline, D.L. (1998) Olfactory responses and field attraction of mosquitoes to volatiles from Limburger cheese and human foot odor. Journal of Vector Ecology 23, 186-194.
18. Kline, D.L. (1999) Comparison of two American Biophysics mosquito traps: the professional and a new counterflow geometry trap. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association, 15, 276-282.
19. Kline, D.L. & Lemire, G.F. (1995) Field evaluation of heat as an added attractant to traps baited with carbon dioxide and octenol for Aedes taeniorhynchus. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association 11, 454-456.
20. Kline, D.L., Wood, J.R. & Morris, C.D. (1990) Evaluation of 1-octen-3-ol as an attractant for Coquillettidia perturbans, Mansonia spp. and Culex spp. associated with phosphate mining operations. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association 6, 605-611.
21. Knols, B.G.J., van Loon, J.J.A., Cork, A., Robinson, R.D., Adam, W., Meijerink, J., De Jong, R. & Takken, W. (1997) Behavioural and electrophysiological responses of the female malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae (Diptera: Culicidae) to Limburger cheese volatiles. Bulletin of Entomological Research 87, 151-159.
22. Laarman, J.J. (1958) The host-seeking behaviour of anopheline mosquitoes. Tropical aand Geographical Medicine 10, 293-305.
23. Mboera, L.E.G. & Takken, W. (1997) Carbon dioxide chemotropism in mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) and its potential in vector surveillance and management programmes. Review of Medical and Veterinary Entomology 85, 355-368.
24. Mboera, L.E.G. & Takken, W. (1999) Odour-mediated host preference of Culex quinquefasciatus in Tanzania. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 92, 83-88.
25. Mboera, L.E.G., Knols, B.G.J., Takken, W. & Della Torre, A. (1997) The response of Anopheles gambiae s.l. and A. funestus (Diptera: Culicidae) to tents baited with human odour or carbon dioxide in Tanzania. Bulletin of Entomological Research 87, 173-178.
26. Mboera, L.E.G., Knols, B.G.J, Takken, W. & Huisman, P.W.T. (1998) Olfactory responses of female Culex quinquefasciatus Say (Diptera: Culicidae) in a dual-choice olfactometer. Journal of Vector Ecology 23, 107-113.
27. Mboera, L.E.G., Knols, B.G.J., Braks, M.A.H. & Takken, W. (2000) Comparison of carbon dioxide baited sampling systems for sampling an outdoor mosquito population in Tanzania. Medical and Veterinary Entomology, in press.
28. Nicolaides, N. (1974) Skin lipids: their biochemical uniqueness. Science 186, 19-26.
29. Ritchie, S.A. & Kline, D.L. (1995) Comparison of CDC and EVS light traps baited with carbon dioxide and octenol for trapping mosquitoes in Brisbane, Queensland (Diptera: Culicidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 34, 215-218.
30. Snedecor, G.W. & Cochran, W.G. (1989) Statistical methods. 8th edn. pp. 268-271. Iowa State University Press.
31. Sudia, W.D. & Chamberlain, R.W. (1962) Battery-operated light trap, an improved model. Mosquito News 22, 126-129.
32. Takken, W. & Knols, B.G.J. (1999) Odor-mediated behaviour of Afrotropical malaria mosquitoes. Annual Review of Entomology 44, 131-157.
33. 2, acetone and 1-octen-3-ol. Journal of Insect Behavior 10, 395-407.