Keywords
Asian tiger mosquito
entomological surveillance
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Abstract
The increasing spread of Aedes (Stegomyia) albopictus (Skuse, 1894)—commonly known as the Asian tiger mosquito and potential vector of various arboviruses —along the Spanish Mediterranean coast and the intense traffic between this area and the Community of Madrid had increased the risk of its arrival in the latter region. Thus, in 2016 the Community of Madrid’s Health Department set up a program for the entomological surveillance and environmental health control of vectors that transmit arboviruses (dengue, chikungunya and zika).The aim of this paper is to analyze the information obtained in the course of this program from 2016 till 2020. Entomological surveillance was designed along the big axes formed by the radial highways that link Madrid with the Mediterranean coast. This active surveillance consisted in installing lethal ovitraps and looking for larvae hatcheries. This was complemented with passive, citizen-based surveillance via channels such as Mosquito Alert. In the summer of 2017, eggs resembling those of Ae. albopictus were found in a trap installed at a gas station on the N-III Highway. In 2018, two persons respectively submitted photos of adult mosquitoes they had seen in two municipalities of the Community of Madrid—Velilla de San Antonio and Rivas- Vaciamadrid, which were later confirmed to belong to this species by the Entomology Laboratory of the Complutense University of Madrid’s Biological Sciences Faculty. Subsequent entomological surveillance in these two municipalities showed that the Asian tiger mosquito had already settled in the former but not in latter. However, a second reintroduction apparently occurred in 2020, the presence of this species being confirmed in Rivas-Vaciamadrid.References
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