Author
- Theobald
- 1901a:169 (M, F*).
- Cairo, Egypt (BM).
Distribution
- Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African
Republic, Chad, Cote d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt,
Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Israel,
Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger,
Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan,
Syria, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
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Synonyms
- albofimbriatus Giles
- albus Ventrillon
- bozasi Neveu-Lemaire
- maculicosta Becker
Bionomics
- Primarily a species of large vegetated swamps; also found along lake
shores and among floating plants, such as Pistia and Potamogeton. Also
found in reservoirs, rice fields, streams, ditches, overgrown wells.
Females will enter houses and bite man, but prefer domestic animals.
They feed from dusk to dawn with a peak at about 0100 (Gillies and deMeillon
1968).
Medical Importance
- A known vector of malaria in Egypt. In tropical Africa, at best it
is a feeble vector of malaria (Gillies and deMeillon 1968).
Additional References
- Evans 1938:370 (M, F*, P*, L*, E*).
- deMeillon 1947b:233 (M, F*, L*, E*).
- Senevet and Andarelli 1955a:188 (M*,
F*, P*, L, E)
- Gillies and deMeillon 1968:253 (M,
F*, L*)
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