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A survey of mosquito breeding places in a municipal cemetery in Curitiba, Paraná State, Brazil, revealed about 60,000 flower vases, with the potential to support a population of approximately 12 million Cx. p. quinquefasciatusand Oc. fluviatilis [Georgecraigius fluviatilis] larvae per year (Lozovei and Chahad 1997).

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    Species described in Chap. 10 concerning European mosquitoes.

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    Norbert Becker & Achim Kaiser

  2. Department for Phytomedicine and Environment Protection, University of Novi Sad, Trg Dositeja Obradovica 8, 21000, Novi Sad, Serbia

    Dušan Petrić & Marija Zgomba

  3. The Pest Management Consultancy, Cowslip Pightle, Hazel Stub Haverhill, Suffolk, CB9 9AF, UK

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Becker, N. et al. (2010). Central and South America. In: Mosquitoes and Their Control. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-92874-4_14

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