An illustrated key to the female anopheline mosquitoes of Central America from western Panama to the southern border of the United States is presented with a taxonomic summary and distribution table. Thirty-nine species and one subspecies are treated: Chagasia (1), Anopheles (Anopheles) (25 and one subspecies), An. (Kerteszia) (2), An. (Lophopodomyia) (1), An. (Nyssorhynchus) (9) and An. (Steth...

background: there is very little information about the mosquito fauna of qom province, central iran. by now only three species; anopheles claviger , an. multicolor , and an. superpictus have been reported in the province. to study mosquito fauna and providing a primary checklist, an investigation was carried out on a collection of mosquitoes in this province. methods: to study the mosquito (dip...

tagetes minuta l. is considered as an annual plant growing in the temperate zones of south america. it has been used as carminative, anti-inflammatory, anti-abortion,vermifuge, bronchodilator and hypotensive. in the current study the locally cultured plant of tagetes minuta l. was studied for phytochemical and larvicidal properties.the phytochemical analysis of aerial parts of the plant exhibit...

Only the Anopheles mosquitoes are implicated in the transmission of malaria. Among the numerous species of anopheles, around fifty are currently involved in the transmission. 20 are responsible for most of the transmission in the world. The diversity of behavior between species and in a single species of anopheles as well as climatic and geographical conditions along with the action of man on t...

INTRODUCTION The present study compares human landing catches of primary malaria vectors with two alternative methods of capture: the Shannon trap and the Mosquito magnet. METHODS This study used regression models to adjust capture data to a negative binominal distribution. RESULTS Capture numbers and relative percentages obtained from the three methods vary strongly between species. The hi...