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Table 12 Adult feeding and resting behaviour (cont.).

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. lesteri

Summary

2

2

-

-

-

1

1

-

-

2

-

2

An. lesteri

TAG

   

  

 

An. leucosphyrus & An. latens

Summary

-

-

-

-

-

1

2

-

-

-

-

-

An. leucosphyrus & An. latens

TAG

 

 

 

 

 

An. maculatus group

Summary

1

9

12

4

-

7

12

1

2

1

3

1

An. maculatus group

TAG

 

     

An. minimus*

Summary

6

14

12

6

-

6

12

1

3

2

4

4

An. minimus*

TAG

 

An. punctulatus*

Summary

2

-

3

3

-

-

7

2

-

-

-

-

An. punctulatus*

TAG

An. sinensis*

Summary

1

9

2

-

-

3

5

-

1

-

1

-

An. sinensis*

TAG

 

  

 

 

 

An. stephensi

Summary

2

4

-

-

-

1

2

-

-

8

-

8

An. stephensi

TAG

 

  

 

An. subpictus*

Summary

1

9

3

2

-

6

5

-

1

6

1

7

An. subpictus*

TAG

 

 

  

 

An. sundaicus*

Summary

1

1

1

3

-

-

3

-

1

1

1

1

An. sundaicus*

TAG

  

 

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