Ovicidal and Larvicidal Effects of Ricinus communis L. (Euphorbiaceae) Extracts on Phlebotomus duboscqi
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2015-11-07
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European Journal of Medicinal Plants
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Aims: To evaluate the Ovicidal and larvicidal effects of Ricinus communis (Euphorbiaceae)
extracts on Phlebotomus duboscqi.
Study Design: A comparative experimental design using extracts obtained from the leaf and bark
of Ricinus communis plant.
Study Site: Kenya Medical Research Institute, Centre for Biotechnology Research and
Development (CBRD), Nairobi Kenya from January to July, 2015.
Methodology: Aqueous, methanol and ethyl acetate extracts were prepared from Ricinus
communis plant. Freshly laid eggs were moistened with 1 ml of each extract separately during the
incubation period. Larvae were also fed on larval food mixed with the powdered crude extract and a
second group was fed on larval food sprinkled with 5 ml of each extract daily.
Results: No significant difference when bark and leaf extracts were compared (P=0.061).
250 μg/ml and 500 μg/ml of extract eroded all the chorionic membranes of the egg shell while egg
hatchability was significantly inhibited with only 7%, 9% and 26% of eggs hatching at 500 μg/ml of
aqueous, methanol and ethyl acetate extracts respectively (P<0.001). 100% larval mortality noted
when at 500 μg/ml methanol extract. The larval period was prolonged to 87 days with the life cycle
lasting for 101 days.
Conclusion: R. communis extracts have deleterious effects on hatching of eggs, larval and pupal
development and adult emergence of P. duboscqi; hence R. communis should be used against
sand flies and Leishmania in situ.
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P. duboscqi, Ricinus communis, ovicidal, larvicidal, mortality, sculpturing.
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