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Infection of Aedes detritus hal. with mosquito iridescent virus.

Mosquito iridescent virus (MIV) has been observed in various species of Culicidae such as Aedes annulipes Meigen (Weiser, 1965), Aedes taeniorhynchus Wiedemann (Clark et al., 1965), Aedes fulvus Wiedemann, Aedes vexans Meigen, Psorophora ferox Humboldt, and Aedes dorsalis Meigen (Chapman et al., 1966). Investigating the host specificity of the MIV from Ae. taeniorhynchus in other mosquitos, Woodard & Chapman (1968) found that it was possible to transmit the virus in Aedes solicitans. Linley & Nielsen (1968a, 1968b) have shown experimentally that healthy larvae could be infected orally from the macerated bodies of infected larvae and that subsequent transovarian transmission occurred. Recently Vago et al. (1969) found a spontaneous natural infection of MIV in Aedes detritus in Tunisia. Apart from ecological surveys, various studies have been made on the nature of infection in diseased larvae. Cadavers of diseased larvae collected from Tunisia were frozen and stored for further studies on the transmission of the virus. This study deals with the infection capacity of the virus to the larvae of Ae. detritus.