Susobhan Datta Mudi, Pranesh Paul, Surajit Ghosh, Himangshu Barman, Goutam K Saha, Gautam Aditya

Observations on the mosquito Mansonia (Diptera: Culicidae) parasitized by mites in West Bengal, India

Abstract Ectoparasitic associations between adult mosquitoes and water mites are ecologically significant but poorly explored. During the survey of adult mosquitoes from cattle sheds in rural areas of West Bengal, India, we encountered Mansonia uniformis parasitized by the larval water mite Arrenurus sp. with an intensity of 2.45 and a prevalence of 7.75%. An extension to the earlier reports from West Bengal, India, on mite parasitizing mosquitoes is being made in the present study.

Doi https://doi.org/10.35513/21658005.2025.1.3

Keywords Ectoparasite; Arrenurus; mosquito; biological control

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