Anopheles albitarsis

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Anopheles albitarsis (neotype from Buenos Aires, Argentina) - 1) body, 2) mesonotum, 3) head (dorsal view), 4) forewing, 5) cibarial teeth, 6) legs, 7-8) dorsal and ventral views of abdomen, 9-10) male and female palpi (click on image to enlarge it)
Author: Maria Goreti Rosa-Freitas and Leonidas M. Deane
Source: Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (1989) 84, p. 290

Anopheles albitarsis wing (click on image to enlarge it)
Authors: Maria Anice Mureb Sallum et al.
Source: Parasites and Vectors (2020), 13 art. 584 p. 6

Anopheles albitarsis Lynch Arribalzaga, 1878

This species of mosquito is found in parts of South America. It can bite humans, but appears not to have a major role in the transmission of malaria. The main hosts have been reported to be birds. It has been recorded as breeding in flooded rice fields in south-eastern Brazil.

The distal parts of the hind tarsi of A. albitarsis are entirely white, as the name indicates. However, in other respects, the species shows considerable morphological variation. Some of these forms have been described as separate species. Thus, it is part of complex of closely related species which now includes, among others Anopheles marajoara and A. deaneorum (e.g. Motoki et al., 2009 and Ruiz-Lopez et al., 2012). This group has a wide distribution in South and Central America, whereas A. albitarsis s.s. appears to be mainly confined to southern parts of Brazil and northern parts of Argentina (Foley et al., 2014).

An identification key for adult females is given in Sallum et al. (2020).