background: microsporidia are known to infect a wide variety of animals including mosquitoes (diptera: cu­licidae). in a recent study on the mosquito fauna of chahar mahal and bakhtiari province, at the central western part of iran, a few larvae of anopheles superpictus were infected with a microsporidium-resembled microorganism. cur­rent investigation deals with the identification of the respo...

In a Perspective accompanying Abad-Franch and colleagues, Lorenz von Seidlein, Alexander Kekulé, and Daniel Strickman discuss the importance of developing effective strategies to minimize mosquito-borne transmission of human diseases.

Anopheles maculipennis Meigen, 1818 (Diptera: Culicidae) complex was discovered as the first sibling species among mosquito and identified a highly important malaria vector in Middle East Europe. s.s. is nominotypical member of complex, widely spread across whole Body size shape are most characters organisms related to numerous variables. Biological may be affected by altitude altitudinal diffe...