Anopheles_cruzii

<i>Anopheles cruzii</i>

Anopheles cruzii

Species of fly

Anopheles cruzii, is the species of mosquito that mainly located in southern coast of Brazil, is main vector of malaria, Plasmodium vivax.[1]

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It has been going through microevolution, which appears in its wing-shape and is correlated with urbanization.[2]

References

  1. [1]
    "ITIS standard report - Anopheles cruzii - Dyar and Knab, 1908". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 11 March 2022.
  2. [2]
    Multini, Laura Cristina; Wilke, André Barretto Bruno; Marrelli, Mauro Toledo (2019-02-01). "Urbanization as a driver for temporal wing-shape variation in Anopheles cruzii (Diptera: Culicidae)". Acta Tropica. 190: 30–36. doi:10.1016/j.actatropica.2018.10.009. ISSN 0001-706X.
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