Anopheles homunculus
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Anopheles homunculus wing (click on image to enlarge it)
Authors: Maria Anice Mureb Sallum et al.
Source: Parasites and Vectors (2020), 13 art. 584 p. 7
Authors: Maria Anice Mureb Sallum et al.
Source: Parasites and Vectors (2020), 13 art. 584 p. 7
Anopheles homunculus Komp, 1937
This mosquito is found in different parts South America, from southern Brazil to Venzuela. It is highly anthropophilic and is regarded as a malaria vector, having been recorded as carrying Plasmodium sporozoits in some surveys. A. homunculus is related to and similar to Anopheles cruzii and A. bellator (e.g. see Lorenz et al., 2012). These three species are found in forested areas and breed mainly in water accumulated in the axils of shaded and epiphyte bromeliads.
Identification keys have been published in the following three articles: 1) for adult males, 2) for fourth-instar larvae and 3) for adult females.
