Abstract
During the last 10 years, a survey of the axil-breeding mosquito has been carried out at several places of the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Sri Lanka, to learn more about their distribution. A total of 27 species of mosquitoes was collected from axils of banana, abaca, taro and pandanus. Among the species collected, the larvae of 12 species were found almost exclusively in the leaf axils. Aedes poicilius, the incriminated vector of bancroftian filariasis, was found to breed extensively in the axils of abaca and banana in the Philippines, especially at Bicol Peninsula. This species, however, seems to prefer axils of other plants to axils of banana and abaca at outside of the Philippines. Ae. ananae and Ae. flavipennis were next common in abaca and banana axils in the philippines. Malaya genurostris was predominant, and sometime the only, species found breeding in taro axils wherever the areas examined. In addition to those, the axils of banana and taro also support the larval stage of medical important mosquitoes, such as Ae. kochi and Ae. albopictus.
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