Anopheles cruzii
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Anopheles cruzii (click on image to enlarge it)
Authors: Anielle de Pina-Costa et al.
Source: Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (2014) 109, p. 628
Authors: Anielle de Pina-Costa et al.
Source: Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (2014) 109, p. 628
Anopheles cruzii Dyar & Knab, 1908
This mosquito is an important malaria vector in southern Brazil, biting humans as well as non-human primates. It can transmit "simian malaria" to humans, but also transmits human malaria species. A. cruzii is especially common in forested mountain areas and breeds mainly in water accumulated in the axils of shaded and epiphyte bromeliads, such as Vriesea. In areas with abundant breeding sites, it can cause outbreaks of "bromeliad malaria".
A. cruzii is considered to be part of a species complex which has been provisionally referred to as species A, B and C. Identification keys have been published in the following three articles: 1) for adult males, 2) for fourth-instar larvae and 3) for adult females.
