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Table 11 Adult feeding and resting behaviour.

From: The dominant Anopheles vectors of human malaria in the Asia-Pacific region: occurrence data, distribution maps and bionomic précis

  

Feeding habit

Biting habit

Biting time

Pre-feeding

resting habit

Post-feeding

resting habit

Species

Source

Anthro-

pophilic

Zoo-

philic

Exo-

phagic

Endo-

phagic

Day

Dusk

Night

Dawn

Exo-

philic

Endo-

philic

Exo-

philic

Endo-

philic

An. aconitus

Summary

1

3

4

3

-

2

5

-

-

1

1

2

An. aconitus

TAG

 

 

An. annularis

Summary

-

8

4

1

-

3

5

-

1

3

1

5

An. annularis

TAG

 

 

An. balabacensis

Summary

4

-

3

2

-

1

4

-

-

1

-

2

An. balabacensis

TAG

 

 

 

An. barbirostris*

Summary

-

3

2

1

-

5

3

-

2

1

3

2

An. barbirostris*

TAG

 

 

An. culicifacies*

Summary

-

9

2

2

-

3

11

-

1

4

1

5

An. culicifacies*

TAG

 

 

An. dirus*

Summary

12

1

10

7

-

-

17

-

2

1

2

-

An. dirus*

TAG

 

 

 

 

 

An. farauti*

Summary

5

-

3

-

-

5

10

1

1

-

1

-

An. farauti*

TAG

 

An. flavirostris

Summary

2

4

6

3

-

-

4

-

-

1

1

1

An. flavirostris

TAG

  

 

 

An. fluviatilis*

Summary

5

6

3

4

-

2

5

1

3

5

5

7

An. fluviatilis*

TAG

 

    

An. koliensis

Summary

3

-

4

6

-

1

6

1

-

-

-

-

An. koliensis

TAG

  1. TAG: = typical, = examples exist.
  2. Numbers indicate the number of studies that found adults under each listed circumstance. An asteriosk (*) denotes that a "species" is now recognised as a species complex.