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Volume 29, Number 8—August 2023
Research

Elimination of Dirofilaria immitis Infection in Dogs, Linosa Island, Italy, 2020–2022

Emanuele BriantiComments to Author , Ettore Napoli, Giovanni De Benedetto, Luigi Venco, Jairo Alfonso Mendoza-Roldan, Angelo Basile, Marcos Antônio Bezerra-Santos, Jason Drake, Roland Schaper, and Domenico OtrantoComments to Author 
Author affiliations: University of Messina, Messina, Italy (E. Brianti, E. Napoli, G. De Benedetto, A. Basile); Ospedale Veterinario Città di Pavia, Pavia, Italy (L. Venco); University of Bari, Valenzano, Italy (J.A. Mendoza-Roldan, M.A. Bezerra-Santos, D. Otranto); Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran (D. Otranto); Elanco Animal Health, Monheim, Germany (J. Drake); RS Consultancy, Monheim (R. Schaper)

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Table

Number and species of mosquitoes captured with light traps on Linosa Island, Italy, October 2020–November 2021

Mosquito species No. (%) specimens No. female No. male
Culex pipiens 114 (31.8) 57 57
Culiseta annulata 69 (19.2) 38 31
Aedes mariae complex 55 (15.3) 37 18
Culex laticinctus 53 (14.8) 27 26
Culex spp.* 41 (11.4) 16 25
Aedes albopictus 16 (4.5) 8 8
Culiseta langereolata 6 (1.7) 5 1
Aedes spp.* 5 (1.4) 2 3
Total 359 (100) 190 169

*Ruined mosquito specimens were morphologically identified to genus level only.

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