Abstract:
Blood-sucking mosquitoes of the Culicidae family are one of the
numerous and ecologically plastic groups of living organisms. During their
evolutionary development, they were able to adapt to highly variable abiotic
conditions in their habitats, thanks to which they spread throughout the
world1. Due to physiological hematophagy, blood-sucking mosquitoes have
vector competence for many pathogens (arboviruses, protists, helminths,
etc.), due to which they pose a significant threat to public health.
In recent decades, the world has faced an urgent problem of the
emergence of known outbreaks and the emergence of new infectious and
parasitic diseases, the vectors of which are blood-sucking mosquitoes. The
processes of globalization and climate change create new ecological spaces,
the conditions of which fit into a wide range of ecological plasticity of some
tropical mosquito species. This complex of transformational processes leads
to the appearance of vectors exotic for certain territories, and with them
dangerous diseases for which there is currently no specific treatment.
