[The attack activity of Uranotaenia unguiculata Edwards, 1913 mosquitoes on man].

Field observations of the activity of U. unguiculata mosquitoes, carried out in the daytime, and 225-min estimations of their numbers against a white screen, lighted with an electric lamp, with half-an-hour intervals between the estimations, that were carried out in the evening and night hours in June, 1988, in the Divichinskiĭ District of Azerbaijan, have demonstrated the aggressiveness of these mosquitoes towards humans. Daily changes in the activity of these mosquitoes were revealed, that consisted of an evening (high) and morning (poorly manifest) maximums and the high and daytime minimums. U. unguiculata bites were not so painful and the skin reactions poorly manifest in comparison with those of other mosquito species, which fact explains, in the authors' opinion, the inadequate interest of scientists to these mosquitoes.