Animals with complex life cycles have traits related to oviposition and juvenile survival that can respond to environmental factors in similar or dissimilar ways. We examined the preference-performance hypothesis (PPH), which states that females lacking parental care select juvenile habitats that maximize fitness, for two ubiquitous mosquito species, Aedes albopictus and Culex quinquefasciatus. Specifically, we examined if environmental factors known to affect larval abundance patterns in the field played a role in the PPH for these species. We first identified important environmental factors from a field survey that predicted larvae across different spatial scales. We then performed two experiments, the first testing the independent responses of oviposition and larval survival to these environmental factors, followed by a combined experiment where initial oviposition decisions were allowed to affect larval life history measures. We used path analysis for this last experiment to determine important links among factors in explaining egg numbers, larval mass, development time, and survival. For separate trials, Aedes albopictus displayed congruence between oviposition and larval survival, however C. quinquefasciatus did not. For the combined experiment path analysis suggested neither species completely fit predictions of the PPH, with density dependent effects of initial egg number on juvenile performance in A. albopictus. For these species the consequences of female oviposition choices on larval performance do not appear to fit expectations of the PPH.

具有复杂生命周期的动物具有与排卵和幼年生存有关的特征，这些特征可以以相似或不同的方式对环境因素作出反应。我们研究了偏好表现假设（PPH），该假设指出，缺乏父母照护的女性会选择两个蚊子，白纹伊蚊和库蚊（Qulex quinquefasciatus）来最大化适应性的青少年栖息地。具体来说，我们检查了已知会影响该领域幼虫丰度模式的环境因素是否在这些物种的PPH中起作用。我们首先通过现场调查确定了重要的环境因素，这些因素预测了不同空间尺度上的幼虫。然后，我们进行了两个实验，首先测试产卵和幼虫存活对这些环境因素的独立反应，然后进行组合实验，其中允许初始产卵决定影响幼虫的生活史测量。我们在最后一个实验中使用路径分析来确定解释卵子数量，幼虫质量，发育时间和存活率的因素之间的重要联系。对于单独的试验，白纹伊蚊显示了在产卵和幼虫存活之间的一致性，但是Ç。quinquefasciatus没有。对于组合实验，路径分析表明这两种物种都不完全符合PPH的预测，而初始卵数对A幼体性能的密度依赖性影响。白化病。对于这些物种，雌性产卵选择对幼虫性能的影响似乎不符合PPH的期望。