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The mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) of the Ecologic Campus of UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais

In a small forest of 4ha placed inside the Ecologic Campus of Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, were made captures of mosquitoes each fifteen days (during the day and the night) in a complete year: March 1988 to February, 1989. The daylight captures were made on human bait and the night captures were made with New Jersey trap. Sixty one captures were made, yielding 497 specimens of 15 species.

mosquitoes; Culicidae; forest


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