Criação em laboratório da família notonectidae (hemiptera:hidrocoryzae), descrição do ciclo biológico de algumas espécies e verificação da viabilidade de utilização destas como controladoras biológicas de larvas e pupas de mosquitos transmissores de doenças.

Abstract

This paper aims to show some considerations about the life cycle of Notonectids, whose characteristic feature is to swim backwards, which is why they are known as back swimmers. They are voracious predators attacking any invertebrate of appropriate size. The material for laboratory rearing was collected from the Lake of Captação Água Preta, in the municipality of Belém - Pará State. In Brazil there are several genera registered, some species of which have their immature forms unknown to science. The laboratory rearing of some species, along with the description of the biological cycle and the selection of those that prove capable of biologically controlling larvae of disease-transmitting mosquitoes, are the main objectives of this work.