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Table 5 Larval site characteristics.

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

  

Light intensity

Salinity

Turbidity

Movement

Vegetation

Species

Source

Helio-

philic

Helio-

phobic

High

(brackish)

Low

(fresh)

Clear

Turbid

Still or

stagnant

Flowing

Higher

plants,

algae etc

No Veg

An. aconitus

Summary

-

-

-

-

1

1

-

3

2

1

An. aconitus

TAG

  

 

An. annularis

Summary

1

-

-

1

1

1

1

2

7

2

An. annularis

TAG

  

An. balabacensis

Summary

-

1

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

1

An. balabacensis

TAG

 

  

 

An. barbirostris*

Summary

2

1

-

-

4

3

1

1

5

2

An. barbirostris*

TAG

  

  

 

An. culicifacies*

Summary

2

-

1

2

3

1

3

3

3

2

An. culicifacies*

TAG

 

An. dirus*

Summary

1

10

-

2

4

3

1

-

-

2

An. dirus*

TAG

 

 

 

An. farauti*

Summary

1

6

8

14

2

4

2

1

18

2

An. farauti*

TAG

 

An. flavirostris

Summary

-

2

-

-

-

-

-

2

1

1

An. flavirostris

TAG

 

 

 

An. fluviatilis*

Summary

1

-

-

1

-

-

1

3

2

1

An. fluviatilis*

TAG

  

  

An. koliensis

Summary

-

-

-

1

-

-

-

-

1

1

An. koliensis

TAG

 

 

 

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