Anopheles aitkenii

Anopheles aitkenii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Superfamily: Culicoidea
Family: Culicidae
Subfamily: Anophelinae
Genus: Anopheles
Species: Anopheles aitkenii
James, 1903

Anopheles aitkenii is a species of mosquito belonging to the genus Anopheles. The species group (Reid and Knight, 1961) is composed of forest forms with small unornamented brown adults, where the females usually indistinguishable. Female feed on vertebrate blood and known to cause simian malaria and filariasis.[1]

References

  1. "A revision of the Anopheles aitkenii group in Malaya and Borneo". ResearchGate. Retrieved 23 December 2016.
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