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Table 3 Larval site characteristics.

From: The dominant Anopheles vectors of human malaria in the Americas: occurrence data, distribution maps and bionomic précis

Species

Source

Light intensity

Salinity

Turbidity

Movement

Vegetation

  

Helio-philic

Helio-phobic

High (brackish)

Low (fresh)

Clear

Polluted

Still or stagnant

Flowing

Higher plants, algae etc.

No Veg

An. albimanus

Summary

3

 

4

4

1

 

3

3

12

 

An. albimanus

TAG

 

 

 

An. albitarsis

Summary

   

1

2

2

1

 

2

 

An. albitarsis

TAG

  

 

 

An. aquasalis

Summary

2

 

3

2

1

1

2

1

3

 

An. aquasalis

TAG

 

 

 

 

An. darlingi

Summary

1

6

1

1

2

1

4

4

8

 

An. darlingi

TAG

 

 

 

An. freeborni

Summary

          

An. freeborni

TAG

  

 

 

 

An. marajoara

Summary

2

   

1

1

1

   

An. marajoara

TAG

 

 

 

An. nuneztovari

Summary

3

3

  

2

2

  

1

 

An. nuneztovari

TAG

 

 

 

An. pseudopunctipennis

Summary

2

 

3

2

2

1

2

1

10

 

An. pseudopunctipennis

TAG

 

 

An. quadrimaculatus

Summary

   

2

1

1

2

 

8

1

An. quadrimaculatus

TAG

  

 

 

 
  1. TAG: Rubio-Palis & Manguin (unpub. obs., 2009, 2010), = typical, = examples exist. Numbers indicate the number of studies that found larvae under each listed circumstance. Anopheles albitarsis refers to the An. albitarsis complex, which includes An. albitarsis, An. albitarsis sp. B, sp. E and An. deaneorum. Anopheles marajoara is listed separately.