In a residual forest patch at Curitiba city, captures of culicidae were performed using human bait, at land levei, between 5:00 to 9:00 hours p.m. The period covered 12 months, march-90 to march-91 and the captures lasted 108 hours. In this período were caught 18 specie distributed in nine genera. The four specie caught that made more than ten percent were Aedes (Ochlerotatus) scapularis (Rondani, 1848), Culex (Culex) group coronator Dyar & Knab, 1906, Culex (Culex) quinquefasciatus Say, 1823 e Aedes (Ochlerotatus) crinifer (Theobald, 1903). The most frequent specie was Culex coronator. Along the season, the best yield was at autumn. With regard to the meteorological pattern, Aedes scapularis showed a positive and signifícative associalion with the rainfall and so do Aedes crinifer with the mean temperature. However, Culex coronator e Culex quinquefasciatus showed no association between air humidity and rainfall. During the time interval analised, bitting activity was performed firstly by Aedes scapularis and Aedes crinifer and then by Culex coronator and Culex quinquefasciatus.
Culicidae; Human bait; Aedes (Ochlerotatus) scapularis