Laird M
Department of Zoology, University of Auckland, Private Bag, New Zealand.
J Am Mosq Control Assoc. 1990 Jun;6(2):287-99.
The latest mosquito survey of the warmer regions of New Zealand (NZ) sampled 2,304 larval mosquito habitats of all major categories. While revealing no evidence of new establishments of exotic mosquitoes, it produced important data revealing the underutilization of types of habitats that could be invaded now or in the future (especially if the "greenhouse effect" eventually causes even quite small rises in average temperatures and sea levels). Although long feared additions of malaria vectors to a fauna still lacking any species of Anopheles, or of essentially tropical arbovirus vectors from neighboring countries to the north and northeast, may not materialize failing climatic amelioration, a new danger appeared at the beginning of the 1988-89 Northern Mosquito Survey when Aedes albopictus was reported for the first time from Fiji. This vector of dengue hemorrhagic fever and Ross River virus has since been spreading widely on the archipelago's main island, Viti Levu, whence much air and sea traffic reaches NZ. Information presented and discussed herein strongly supports the continuance and improvement of international aircraft disinsection and other insect quarantine measures.
新西兰较温暖地区最新的蚊虫调查对所有主要类型的2304个幼虫蚊虫栖息地进行了采样。虽然没有发现外来蚊虫新迁入的证据，但调查产生了重要数据，揭示了一些栖息地类型未得到充分利用，这些栖息地现在或将来可能会被入侵（特别是如果“温室效应”最终导致平均气温和海平面即使出现相当小幅度的上升）。尽管长期以来人们一直担心缺乏按蚊种类的动物区系会新增疟疾病媒，或者来自北部和东北部邻国的基本上是热带的虫媒病毒病媒会传入，但如果气候改善，这种情况可能不会发生。然而，在1988 - 1989年北方蚊虫调查开始时出现了一个新的危险，当时首次从斐济报告了白纹伊蚊。这种登革出血热和罗斯河病毒的病媒此后一直在该群岛的主岛维提岛广泛传播，许多空中和海上交通从那里抵达新西兰。本文所呈现和讨论的信息有力地支持了继续并改进国际航班灭虫及其他昆虫检疫措施。
