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Table 6 Adult feeding and resting behaviour.

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

Species

Source

Feeding habit

Biting habit

Biting time

Pre-feeding resting habit

Post-feeding resting habit

  

Anthro-pophilic

Zoo-philic

Exo-phagic

Endo-phagic

Day

Dusk

Night

Dawn

Exo-philic

Endo-philic

Exo-philic

Endo-philic

An. albimanus

Summary

2

2

9

2

 

7

9

0

  

1

3

An. albimanus

TAG

●

●

●

●

 

●

●

 

●

 

●

 

An. albitarsis

Summary

2

2

4

3

 

7

3

   

2

 

An. albitarsis

TAG

●

●

●

●

 

●

●

 

●

 

●

○

An. aquasalis

Summary

1

1

2

2

1

2

1

 

1

 

1

 

An. aquasalis

TAG

●

●

●

●

 

●

●

 

●

 

●

 

An. darlingi

Summary

12

 

9

6

 

15

23

3

1

 

2

 

An. darlingi

TAG

●

○

●

●

 

●

●

●

●

 

●

 

An. freeborni

Summary

1

1

          

An. freeborni

TAG

●

●

●

●

 

●

●

●

●

 

●

 

An. marajoara

Summary

2

2

3

  

4

1

 

1

 

2

 

An. marajoara

TAG

●

●

●

●

 

●

●

 

●

 

●

 

An. nuneztovari

Summary

2

4

5

1

 

3

1

 

1

 

2

 

An. nuneztovari

TAG

●

●

●

●

 

●

●

●

●

 

●

 

An. pseudopunctipennis

Summary

3

2

3

   

1

  

1

1

2

An. pseudopunctipennis

TAG

●

●

●

●

  

●

 

●

 

●

●

An. quadrimaculatus

Summary

 

3

2

  

1

 

1

2

 

2

 

An. quadrimaculatus

TAG

●

●

●

 

○

●

●

●

●

 

●

 
  1. TAG: Rubio-Palis & Manguin (unpub. obs., 2009, 2010), ● = typical, ○ = examples exist. Numbers indicate the number of studies that found adults 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.
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