Entomology, Ornithology & Herpetology: Current Research
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Ecole Doctorale des Grandes Ecoles (EDGE), Laboratoire d’Ecologie Vectorielle (LEV-IRET), Libreville, Gabon

Biography

Dr.Sevidzem Silas Lendzele has interested in biting flies and in the design of traps for their control. Sevidzem Silas Lendzele has participated in several field works in Central and West Africa (Cameroon, Gabon, and Ivory Coast). I started with the first field test of my trap, the ‘Sevi Trap’ (Lendzele et al., 2017) with the MSEG team in the Sora-Mboum Sahel Savanna of Cameroon. Since 2016 I am collaborating with the Cameroon-German DFG-research project with Dr. Albert Eisenbarth and PD Dr. Alfons Renz (University of Tuebingen, Germany) in a Tabanidae project at the Vina du Sud in the Adamaoua Plateau.

Publications

• Research   
  Efficacy of Modified Vavoua and Nzi Traps in the Capture of Stable Flies: A Preliminary Field Trial in Cameroon
  Author(s): Sevidzem Silas Lendzele*, Zinga Koumba Christophe Roland, Koumba Aubin Armel, Mintsa Nguema Rodrigue, Mamoudou Abdoulmoumini, Acapovi-Yao Genevieve Lydie and M’batchi Bertrand
  
  There is need for a simple, cheap and efficient collection and control tool for the different stable fly-species in hyperinfested foci. The efficacy of a modified unbaited Vavoua trap (MVT) was compared with an unbaited Nzi as a standard. Each trap type was set either inside or outside the cattle overnight pen with rotation taking place after four days for eight days in September 2018 in Ngaoundere. Fly collection was made every 24 hours and sorted using standard identification keys. In total, 2105 hematophagous flies were caught and constituted of 1417 S. niger niger (89 S.n/t/d), 124 S. calcitrans (8 S.c/t/d), 562 Musca spp. (25 m/t/d) and 2 Chrysops distinctipennis (0.1 Cd/t/d). The overall mean catches with the MVT (50.96 ± 57.16) was higher than with the Nzi (27.43 ± 27.73), with no statistically significant difference (t=0.9, df=46. 0, P=0.37). Higher mean catches .. View More»
  DOI: 10.35248/2161-0983.20.9.230

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