A survey on indoor resting mosquito species in Phnom Penh, Kampuchea

Indoor resting mosquitoes were collected in 7 localities (250 houses) of Phnom Penh at various periods. The mosquitoes were collected for 8 min in every house by means of an aspirator and net. A total of 16 species of mosquitoes resting in houses were found, one of them for the first time in Kampuchea. Culex quinquefasciatus was the predominant species in 6 of the localities observed; its predominance in houses was more or less evident; Aedes aegypti prevailed in one locality. The percentage of A. aegypti predominance in houses corresponds with the risk of occurrence of dengue haemorrhagic fever. Anopheles vagus was found resting in higher abundance in houses of one locality. This fact is of little epidemiological significance because of the zoophilic character of An. vagus in Kampuchea. On the other hand even uncommon occurrence of Anopheles subpictus found in houses may signalize a possibility of an endemic occurrence of malaria in Phnom Penh.