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Summer Malaria Mosquito
Anopheles arabiensis
Anopheles arabiensis is a zoophilic species of mosquito and a vector of disease endemic to Africa.
From the article Anopheles arabiensis on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Range & habitat
The distribution is Afrotropical. There was a brief invasion into Brazil in 1930 but this was quickly eradicated. (Note that this was long misidentified as an invasion by A. gambiae. Only with genetic tools and a great deal of time did Parmekalis et al. 2008 find it to really have been A. arabiensis.) The investigations regarding the ecology of A. arabiensis by Gwitira et al. 2018, Ageep et al. 2009 and Fuller et al. 2012a help to model the distribution of various avian malaria pathogens. Locally A. arabiensis' is especially known as an exophage and exophile. Its movements through the local ecology are not sufficiently studied – Debebe et al. 2018 is one of the few investigations in this question.
Wikipedia: “Range”
What it does
Not thought to naturally serve as a host of Wolbachia until Baldini et al. 2018 showed to the contrary.
Wikipedia: “Symbionts”
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Where it lives
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 343684.