Anopheles sacharovi

Author

• Favre
• 1903:189 (A).
• Evlaxe, Yelizavetpol Dist., Transcaucasia [Elisabethpol, Caucasus, U.S.S.R.] (ZMM).

Distribution

• Afghanistan, Albania, Armenia, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, France, Georgia, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Macedonia, Poland, Russia, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkey, Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro)
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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.).
• Hadjivassilis 2000 7: 38 (distr.).
• Ramsdale and Snow 2000:8 (distr.; remove Romania).
• Sedaghat et al. 2003: 243 (M*, F, P*, L*, E; tax.); 250 (distr., Armenia).
• Qu and Zhu 2008:211 (distr. China)

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