Table 4.
Prevalence of trypanosomatids in experimental infections of larvae.
| Host | Parasite | Control | 2 h | 24 h | 4 d | Pupae | Imagines | Died 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aedes cantans 1 | Crithidia brevicula M1183 | 0/3 | 8/11 | 4/7 | 0/9 | - | - | 0 |
| Aedes punctor 2 | Crithidia fasciculata | 0/58 | 10/10 | 0/15 | - | 0/17 | 0/9 | 7 |
| Aedes communis 2 | Crithidia fasciculata | 0/30 | 7/7 | 0/7 | - | 0/10 | 0/6 | 0 |
| Culex torrentium 2 | Crithidia fasciculata | 0/70 | 10/10 | 0/30 | - | 0/20 | 0/8 | 2 |
| Culex torrentium 2 | Crithidia dobrovolskii | 0/60 | 10/10 | 0/30 | - | 0/14 | 0/5 | 1 |
1 Bred in the lab, therefore the number of control specimens is limited. 2 Collected in nature, the control specimens for these experiments are also included in the statistics of the Table 1. 3 Insects that were found dead at any stage of the experiment were excluded from the analysis. Dashes mean “not assessed”.