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Author(s)
Nikolina Sokolovska1, Jovanka Kostovska2, Shemsi Musa1, Liljana Lazarevska1, Luljzime Bajrami1 and Zlatko Arsenievski1
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DOI:10.17265/2328-7136/2017.06.010
Affiliation(s)
1. P.H.O. Center for Public Health-Skopje, Bld. 3rd Macedonian Brigade No.18, Skopje 1000, Republic of Macedonia
2. Ministry of Health of the Republic of Macedonia, str.50th Division No.6, Skopje 1000, Republic of Macedonia
ABSTRACT
Collecting eggs of Aedes (Stegomyia) albopictus (Skuse, 1894) (Diptera,
fam. Culicidae), i.e. Asian tiger
mosquito was carried out in August 2016. Fourteen (14) ovitraps were placed at 3 different places: the area
Banja Bansko (near Strumica), Mrzenci (Gevgelija) and at the border crossing
between Macedonia-Greece (Bogorodica). During one month the ovitraps were
exposed for two weeks, near the vegetation that mosquitoes use as resting
places, also in the places where people
are present and close to potted flower arrangements. The collected eggs from
the ovitraps were returned to the Entomological laboratory of the P.H.O. Center for
public health-Skopje and put in an entomological (hand-made) cage. Under the
optimum moisture and temperature, after a few days the adults emerged. The
determination of species was performed using a binocular magnifier. A total of
50 mosquitoes were collected, of those 23 were male Ae. albopictus and 27 were female Ae. albopictus. These examples were
verified by prof. Dusan Petric and the
Medical entomology laboratory at the Faculty of Agriculture Novi Sad (Republic
of Serbia). The presence of Ae. albopictus in the Republic of
Macedonia was for the first time determined. We are now even more motivated to
investigate and prove the presence of tiger mosquitos in other locations in
Macedonia.
KEYWORDS
Asian tiger mosquito, ovitraps, collecting eggs, Republic of Macedonia.
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