Premium
Spacing behaviour in resting Culex pipiens (Diptera, Culicidae): a computer modelling approach
Author(s) -
KRAUSE JENS,
BROWN DAVID,
CORBET SARAH A.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
physiological entomology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.693
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1365-3032
pISSN - 0307-6962
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-3032.1992.tb01017.x
Subject(s) - biology , culex pipiens , randomness , ecology , zoology , statistics , larva , mathematics
. We compared two models based on Monte Carlo simulations with the spacing patterns of resting adults of the mosquito Cx pipiens L. (form molestus ) (Diptera, Culicidae). The comparison with the first model which assumed a distribution of complete spatial randomness showed that there was a tendency for mosquitoes to repel other mosquitoes which were too close, resulting in high local regularity. The second model took this repulsion into account. A final test of global patchiness using Model 2 indicated that the spacing behaviour of Cx pipiens was not sufficiently described by local regularity only, but also required a gregarious element. This supports the hypothesis that the molestus form of Cx pipiens shows spaced‐out gregariousness in the sense of Kennedy & Crawley (1967).