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Research Article

ScienceAsia 8 (1982): 205-213 |doi: 10.2306/scienceasia1513-1874.1982.08.205

 

PRELIMINARY SURVEY OF THE NATURAL ENEMIES OF MOSQUITOES IN THAILAND.

 

SIRIWAT WONGSIRI

ABSTRACT: Surveys to obtain noninsect predators and insect predators as natural enemies of mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) were conducted at ten inland localities in Thailand. Twenty species of noninsect predators and fourteen species of insect predators are reported. The most abundant and consistently recorded species were three species of fish (Tilapia nilotica, Trichopsis vittatus and Dermogenys pusillus) and two species of reptiles, Hemidactylus frenatus and Platyrus platyrus. These species have not been reported in the literature as good natural enemies of mosquitoes in Thailand prior to this research.

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Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciencet Chulalongkorn University, Phya Thai Rd., Bangkok, Thailand.

Received 8 November 1982