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Diapause and laboratory breeding of Phlebotomus perniciosus Newstead and Phlebotomus ariasi Tonnoir (Diptera: Psychodidae) from southern France

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

P. D. Ready  and
H. Croset
P. D. Ready
Affiliation:
Laboratoire d’Ecologie médicale et Pathologie parasitaire, Faculté de Médecine de Montpellier, France
H. Croset
Affiliation:
Laboratoire d’Ecologie médicale et Pathologie parasitaire, Faculté de Médecine de Montpellier, France
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Abstract

Observations are reported on diapause and laboratory breeding of Phlebotomus perniciosus Newst. and P. ariasi Tonnoir, the two phlebotomine sandflies incriminated as vectors of visceral leishmaniasis in southern France. Previous field studies had suggested that both species are univoltine in southern France, but the present laboratory investigations showed that diapause is obligatory for neither species. Temperature (both species) and photoperiod (P. perniciosus) were found to affect diapause-induction, and diapause was commonly determined before the overwintering stage (the fourth-instar larva). The results showed that P. perniciosus can be mass-reared for at least three uninterrupted generations each year if it is maintained at 28°C in LD 17:7. Further investigations are needed if P. ariasi is also to be bred in sufficient numbers for epidemiological experiments; its colonisation was prevented primarily by low fertility, and attempts at forced insemination were unsuccessful.

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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 70 , Issue 3 , September 1980 , pp. 511 - 523
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1980

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