Anopheles pseudopunctipennis
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Author(s): Leopoldo M. Rueda, E.L. Peyton and Sylvie Manguin
Source: Journal of Medical Entomology (2004), 41, p. 14
Authors: Maria Anice Mureb Sallum et al.
Source: Parasites and Vectors (2020), 13 art. 584 p. 7
Anopheles pseudopunctipennis Theobald, 1901
This mosquito is found from Argentina to southern parts of North America. A. pseudopunctipennis readily bites humans, but also feeds on domestic animals like goats, sheep or donkeys. It is regarded as an important malaria vector in some countries and has been found carrying Plasmodium vivax.
A. pseudopunctipennis has been recorded to breed in tanks, rice paddies, river edges, ditches or marshes and seems to be often associated with the presences of filamentous algae (e.g. see Pinault & Hunter, 2012). The removal of these algae reduces breeding (Bond et al., 2007).
Identification keys have been published in the following three articles: 1) for adult males, 2) for fourth-instar larvae and 3) for adult females.
