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Table 6 Larval site characteristics (cont.).

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. lesteri

Summary

-

1

-

-

-

-

-

-

1

-

An. lesteri

TAG

   

      

An. leucosphyrus & An. latens

Summary

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

An. leucosphyrus & An. latens

TAG

 

 

   

An. maculatus group

Summary

2

1

-

-

2

1

2

1

1

1

An. maculatus group

TAG

  

 

 

An. minimus*

Summary

1

1

-

-

2

-

3

2

3

1

An. minimus*

TAG

 

 

 

An. punctulatus*

Summary

3

-

-

1

2

1

-

-

2

4

An. punctulatus*

TAG

 

 

An. sinensis*

Summary

-

-

-

-

1

-

2

2

2

1

An. sinensis*

TAG

   

 

 

An. stephensi

Summary

2

1

1

1

3

2

2

1

2

1

An. stephensi

TAG

 

An. subpictus*

Summary

2

-

7

4

3

4

2

1

6

2

An. subpictus*

TAG

 

 

 

An. sundaicus*

Summary

3

1

7

4

1

-

1

-

2

1

An. sundaicus*

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.