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Author: Grassi.
1899:560 (A).
Italy (LU).
Distribution
Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Armenia,
Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Egypt, France,
Georgia, Greece, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Libya, Macedonia, Pakistan, Russia, Spain,
Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
Synonyms
atheniensis Cardamatis
1931:129
(A*).
Type-loc: Athena, [Attica], Greece (LU).
Pandazis
1935:4 (syn.) [an earlier record of syn. than recorded by Ward
1984:269].
berestnevi Shingarev
1926:48
(F; as var.).
Type-loc: near Tashkent, [Uzbek, U.S.S.R.] (LU).
Christophers
1933:264 (syn.).
cardamatisi Newstead and Carter
1910:379
(M*, F*; Pyretophorus). )
Type-loc: Athens, [Attica], Greece (BM).
hellenicus Peus
1954:76
(E*).
Type-loc: Langadas Loutra, Thessa loniki, Macedonia, Greece
(NE).
macedoniensis Cot and Hovasse
1917:890
(A*, L; Pyretophorus superpictus var.).
Type-loc: Macedonia, Greece (FMP).
nursei Theobald
1907:66
(F; Pyretophorus).
Type-loc: Quetta [Baluchistan, Pakistan] (BM).
palestinensis Theobald
1903a:71 (M*, F*;Pyretophorus).
Type-loc: Several localities in Palestine [= Lebanon and Syria]
and Cyprus (BM).
vassilievii Portschinsky
1911:58 (A*; as var.)
Bionomics
Larvae are found in flowing water, including
streams, rivers and irrigation channels in hilly and mountainous
areas. Adults readily enter houses to bite man (Barraud 1933).
Medical Importance
Primary malaria vector (Beklemischev
in Boyd 1949).
Additional References
Theodor 1925:381 (E*).
Senevet
1930:319 (P*).
Christophers
1933:264 (M*, F*, P, L*, E).
Beklemischev, in Boyd 1949:433 (biology).
Monchadskii
1951:96 (L*).
Gutsevich, Monchadsky and Stackelberg 1974:114 (M*, F*, L*).
Ramsdale and Snow 2000:10 (distr.). |
