Fauna Nyamuk Anopheles di Daerah Perbatasan Kota Palu, Sulawesi Tengah

In an effort to control malaria, several factors that need to know are the type and behavior of the Anopheles mosquitoes in malaria endemic areas. Although the municipality of Palu is still endemic area with low malaria cases (the Low Incidence area LIA), but there are always cases of malaria throughout the year. From that reason, there is still important to know Anopheles diversity in this region. This research is intended to identify Anopheles diversity in the area and to obtaine information on the vector status. The methods that used for Anopheles collection is Hole night collection to identify the density and diversity of malaria vectors in the area. The density of mosquitoes based on the number of mosquitoes that caught per person per hour as well as fluctuations in the density of biting people inside and outside the home per hour. In this study, we used 6 persons to collect the mosquitoes. Three persons were collected mosquitoes indoor; whereas three others persons were collected Anopheles outdoor . In this study that has been conducted in four villages, we species of Anopheles mosquitoes, namely: An. vagus, An. barbirostris, An. indefinitus, An. maculatus and An. ludlowae. An. vagus is most often found as many as 15 mosquitoes (65.2%), and then An. barbirostris is three mosquitoes (13.1%0), An. indelinitus and An. maculatus are two mosquitoes per each (8.7%). Anopheles ludlowae is one mosquito (4.3%). The result of ELISA test to indentify the presence of sporozoite of the malaria plasmodium in mosquitoes salivary gland showed negative (sporozoit in all of mosquitoes salivary gland are negative).