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Laboratory colonization of Phlebotomus argentipes (Diptera: Psychodidae)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 September 2011

K.N. Ghosh  and
A. Bhattacharya
K.N. Ghosh
Affiliation:
Immunoparasitology Research Unit, Department of Zoology, University of Calcutta, 35 Ballygunge Circular Road, Calcutta 700 019, India
A. Bhattacharya*
Affiliation:
Immunoparasitology Research Unit, Department of Zoology, University of Calcutta, 35 Ballygunge Circular Road, Calcutta 700 019, India
*
* Address correspondence to second author.
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Abstract

Establishment and maintenance of a laboratory colony of Phlebotomus argentines are described which presently is in the nineteenth generation. Larvae were reared in modified plastic vials and were fed with a newly prepared food. Emerged flies were kept in adult holding cages at 50–90% r.h. and 25–26°C and provided with 30% sucrose solution. The average development time (egg to adult) of each generation in the laboratory was about 32 days at 28–31°C. Adult females were fed blood on hamsters, humans and white mice. Observations were made on mating behaviour, host preference, oviposition, effect of temperature, etc.

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PhlebotomusLutzomyiavectorrearingblood feedingcolonyPhlebotomusLutzomyiavecteurarrierenourries du sangcolonie

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International Journal of Tropical Insect Science , Volume 10 , Issue 4 , August 1989 , pp. 551 - 555
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Copyright © ICIPE 1989

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