Mosquito borne diseases remain as the world’s most severe insect-borne disease with excessive rate in morbidity and mortality. Mosquitoes transmit various severe diseases, such as dengue, malaria, filariasis, viral encephalitis, Japanese encephalitis, chickungunya and zika virus infection causing millions of deaths worldwide; and no part of the world is liberated from mosquito borne diseases. Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus represent the two important mosquito vectors for dengue virus transmission in America and Asia. According to the Integrated Disease Surveillance Project (ISDP), 8888 confirmed dengue infections were reported from January 1 st to June 30 th 2017 in Kerala state, India. Of which 409 confirmed dengue infections were reported from Thrissur district of Kerala including Irinjalakuda Municipality, the study area. In addition, 15 confirmed and 56 suspected dengue fever death were also reported from Kerala state, India . Current epidemics of dengue and severe mosquito borne diseases from Kerala have exposed the need for more comprehensive understanding of the mosquito species types, their vectorial capacity, and the habitat characteristics that offer them for proper breeding environment in the study area. The present study also explored the applicability of COI-based DNA bar coding as an alternative approach to identify mosquito species such as A. aegypti and A. albopictus .
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