Inventário de mosquitos (Diptera: Culicidae) da Unidade de Conserva？？o Ambiental Desterro, Ilha de Santa Catarina, Sul do Brasil

two thousand and sixty one specimens distributed in 36 species of mosquitoes were collected between august 2007 and may 2008 at the environmental conservation unit desterro (located in santa catarina state, brazil). the five most abundant species were: runchomyia reversa (29.74%), ochlerotatus scapularis (14.80%), wyeomyia pallidoventer (9.51%), anopheles cruzii (8.30%) and sabethes purpureus (7.03%). ten species of culicidae are firstly reported to the santa catarina state, and of these, six belong to the genus wyeomyia.