Bradt, DavidWormington, Jillian D.Long, James M.Hoback, W. WyattNoden, Bruce H.2022-04-122022-04-122019-04-05Bradt, D., Wormington, J. D., Long, J. M., Hoback, W. W., & Noden, B. H. (2019). Differences in mosquito communities in six cities in Oklahoma. Journal of Medical Entomology, 56(5), pp. 1395-1403. https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjz039https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14446/335139Vector-borne diseases in the United States have recently increased as a result of the changing nature of vectors, hosts, reservoirs, pathogens, and the ecological and environmental conditions. Current information on vector habitats and how mosquito community composition varies across space and time is vital to successful vector-borne disease management. This study characterizes mosquito communities in urban areas of Oklahoma, United States, an ecologically diverse region in the southern Great Plains. Between May and September 2016, 11,996 female mosquitoes of 34 species were collected over 798 trap nights using three different trap types in six Oklahoma cities. The most abundant species trapped were Culex pipiens L. complex (32.4%) and Aedes albopictus (Skuse) (Diptera: Culicidae) (12.0%). Significant differences among mosquito communities were detected using analysis of similarities (ANOSIM) between the early (May-July) and late (August-September) season. Canonical correlation analysis (CCA) further highlighted the cities of Altus and Idabel as relatively unique mosquito communities, mostly due to the presence of Aedes aegypti (L.) and salt-marsh species and absence of Aedes triseriatus (Say) in Altus and an abundance of Ae. albopictus in Idabel. These data underscore the importance of assessing mosquito communities in urban environments found in multiple ecoregions of Oklahoma to allow customized vector management targeting the unique assemblage of species found in each city.application/pdfThis material has been previously published. In the Oklahoma State University Library's institutional repository this version is made available through the open access principles and the terms of agreement/consent between the author(s) and the publisher. The permission policy on the use, reproduction or distribution of the material falls under fair use for educational, scholarship, and research purposes. Contact Digital Resources and Discovery Services at lib-dls@okstate.edu or 405-744-9161 for further information.Animal DistributionAnimalsBiodiversityCitiesCulicidaeEcosystemFemaleOklahomaSeasons2022-04-0710.1093/jme/tjz039ArticleGreat PlainsOklahomamosquitosurveillanceRare DiseasesVaccine RelatedPreventionInfectious DiseasesVector-Borne DiseasesEmerging Infectious Diseases06 Biological Sciences11 Medical and Health SciencesTropical MedicineScopusID: 57193879068 (Bradt, D)ScopusID: 56395522000 (Wormington, JD)ORCID: 0000-0002-8658-9949 (Long, JM)ScopusID: 57210962651 (Long, JM)ORCID: 0000-0002-8927-9102 (Hoback, WW)ScopusID: 35609532500 (Hoback, WW)ORCID: 0000-0002-0096-370X (Noden, BH)ScopusID: 6601968347 (Noden, BH)