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1902:31 (A*, L*).

Duars (Jalpaiguri District) [West Bengal], Nagpur [Central Provinces], and the Jeypore Hill Tracts, India (LU).


Distribution
Afghanistan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, China, India, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Vietnam, Yemen

SpeciesMap

Synonyms
arabica Christophers and Chand
1915:189 (M, F, L; funestus var.).
Type-loc: Muscat, [Oman] (BM).
Mattingly and Knight 1956:92 (syn.).
Townsend 1990:45 (type dep.).

leptomeres Theobald
1903a:38 (F; Myzomyia).
Type-loc: India (BM).

listonii Liston
1901:365 (non Giles 1901) (A*).
Type-loc: Ellichpur, [Amaraoti Dist., Central Provinces], India (BM).
Christophers 1911:66 (E*).

Bionomics
Not usually found below 1000 ft. Larvae are found in the grassy edges of slow moving streams, sprIngs, irrigation channels, sometimes in the edges of swamps and lakes. Females readily bite man, feeding generally before midnight (Christophers 1933).

Medical Importance
Primary malaria vector (Christophers 1933).

Additional References
Christophers 1933:203 (M*, F*, P, L*, E).
Puri, in Boyd 1949:490 (biol.).
Horsfall 1955:214 (biol.).
Bhombore, Sitaraman and Achuthan 1956:23 (biol.).
Maffi 1971:449 (L*; distr.).
Chowdaiah and Seetharam 1975:495 (chromosomes*).
Harrison, Rattanarithikul, Peyton and Mongkolpanya 1991:223 (distr.).

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