MOSQUITOS OF PERIDOMICILIARY AND EXTRADOM ICILIARY ENVIRONMENTS IN OFSOUTHERN BRAZIL

Mosquitoes were collected on Sonho Real farm, Querencia do Norte count y, Parana State, Brazil, using human bait and Falcao traps between Jun e 1989 and May 1990. The fauna composition, monthly density, hours of major density, human attraction and presence of mosquitoes in domestic animal shelters were investigated. 5,923 mosquitoes of the genera Aed es, Aedomyia, Anopheles, Coquillettidea, Culex, Mansonia, Psoraphora, Sabethes and Uranotaenia were collected. 33 species of mosquitoes were identified and among them Aedes scapularis, Anopheles albitarsis, Aed omyia squamipennis, Coquillettidea lynchi, Mansonia titillans e Coquil lettidea venezuelensis were predominant. All these species were captur ed mainly on human bait, except Aedomyia squamipennis that was capture d in domestic animal shelters. With regard to all the mosquitoes captu red (5,923), their major period of activity was between 18 and 19 hour s and April was the month of greatest density.