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Latin American Symposium II

Latin American Symposium II

160 - First records of Aedes tormentor and Culex panocossa in Tamaulipas, Mexico

Wednesday, March 5, 2025
3:05 PM – 3:15 PM AST
Location: 202
Abstract: We report the first records of Aedes tormentor Dyar and Knab and Culex panocossa Dyar throughout vector surveillance events carried out in a putative foci of Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) in Tamaulipas, Mexico. Formerly, Ae. tormentor had been reported in at least two Central American countries and Mexico. In Mexico, in the states of Campeche, Chiapas, Quintana Roo, and Veracruz. Records of Ae. tormentor in these four Neotropical states were recently reviewed and eliminated, thus, the Southernmost geographic distribution for this species is considered to be the state of Tamaulipas. Moreover, Cx. panocossa had been collected in Guerrero, Tabasco and Veracruz. In Tamaulipas, there are 82 species of mosquitoes, being the fourth state accounting the higher mosquito species diversity out of 10 states where comprehensive studies have been conducted on the subject of mosquito distribution.