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Akaike information criterion (AIC) modeling was used to test whether location, year of sampling, and mosquito species were significant predictors of minimum infection rates (MIR).<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>We collected 788 unengorged mosquitoes of six species, both native and introduced. The most frequently caught mosquito species were the introduced <jats:italic>Aedes notoscriptus<\/jats:italic> and the native <jats:italic>Culex pervigilans<\/jats:italic>. <jats:italic>Plasmodium<\/jats:italic> sp DNA was detected in 37% of matched thorax and abdomen pools. When considered separately, 33% of abdomen and 23% of thorax pools tested positive by nested PCR. The MIR of the positive thorax pools from introduced mosquito species was 1.79% for <jats:italic>Ae.\u00a0notoscriptus<\/jats:italic> and 0% for <jats:italic>Cx.\u00a0quinquefasciatus<\/jats:italic>, while the MIR for the positive thorax pools of native mosquito species was 4.9% for <jats:italic>Cx.\u00a0pervigilans<\/jats:italic> and 0% for <jats:italic>Opifex fuscus<\/jats:italic>. For the overall MIR, site and mosquito species were significant predictors of <jats:italic>Plasmodium<\/jats:italic> overall MIR. <jats:italic>Aedes notoscriptus<\/jats:italic> and <jats:italic>Cx.\u00a0pervigilans<\/jats:italic> were positive for malaria DNA in the thorax samples, indicating that they may play a role as avian malaria vectors. Four different <jats:italic>Plasmodium<\/jats:italic> lineages (SYAT05, LINN1, GRW6, and a new lineage of <jats:italic>P (Haemamoeba)<\/jats:italic> sp. 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