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Author: Favre
1903:189
(A).
Evlaxe, Yelizavetpol Dist., Transcaucasia
[Elisabethpol, Caucasus, U.S.S.R.] (ZMM).
Distribution
Afghanistan, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, France, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Israel,
Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Macedonia, Romania, Russia,
Syria, Turkey, Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro)
Synonyms
elutus Edwards
1921d:273
(M, F, L, E*).
Type-loc: Kishon, Palestine [Israel] (BM).
Martini 1930:143 (M*, F*, L* , E*).
Bionomics
"In the Mediterranean area it breeds
typically in large brackish marshes though larvae may at times
be found in a wide variety of habitats" Adults are anthropophagous
(Bates in Boyd 1949).
Medical Importance
Primary malaria vector (Bates in
Boyd 1949).
Additional References
La Face, in Boyd 1949:436 (F, L, E*).
Glick
1992:129 (distr.).
Ramsdale and Snow 2000:8 (distr.). |
