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'''''Anopheles claviger''''' is a [[mosquito]] species responsible for transmitting malaria in Palearctic ecozone covering Europe, North Africa, northern Arabain peninsula, and northern Asia.<ref>{{cite book|last=Kaiser|first=Norbert Becker, Dusan Petric, Marija Zgomba, Clive Boase, Minoo Madon, Christine Dahl, Achim|title=Mosquitoes and Their Control|date=2010|publisher=Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg|location=Berlin, Heidelberg|isbn=978-3-540-92874-4|pages=166-168|url=http://books.google.co.in/books?id=JIfgVr1f4IQC&pg|edition=2nd ed.}}</ref> |
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'''Anopheles claviger''' is a [[mosquito]] which was known for breeding abundantly in the [[Åland Islands]]. |
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As a result, [[malaria]] was endemic in the islands for at least 150 years, with severe malaria outbreaks being recorded in the 17th century, and in 1853 and 1862.<ref name=protheropagew>{{cite book|last=Prothero | first=G.W.| authorlink = George Walter Prothero | title=The Åland Islands | date=1920 | publisher=Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section | page= 3 | url=http://www.wdl.org/en/item/9147/view/1/15/}}</ref> |
It was known for breeding abundantly in the [[Åland Islands]] of Finland. As a result, [[malaria]] was endemic in the islands for at least 150 years, with severe malaria outbreaks being recorded in the 17th century, and in 1853 and 1862.<ref name=protheropagew>{{cite book|last=Prothero | first=G.W.| authorlink = George Walter Prothero | title=The Åland Islands | date=1920 | publisher=Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section | page= 3 | url=http://www.wdl.org/en/item/9147/view/1/15/}}</ref> |
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* syn. amaurus Martini |
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* syn. grisescens Stephens |
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* syn. habibi Mulligan and Puri |
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* syn. missiroli Del Vecchio |
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* syn. pollutus Canamares |
* syn. pollutus Canamares |
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* syn. turkestani Shingarev |
* syn. turkestani Shingarev |
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Anopheles claviger is a mosquito species responsible for transmitting malaria in Palearctic ecozone covering Europe, North Africa, northern Arabain peninsula, and northern Asia.[1]
It was known for breeding abundantly in the Åland Islands of Finland. As a result, malaria was endemic in the islands for at least 150 years, with severe malaria outbreaks being recorded in the 17th century, and in 1853 and 1862.[2]
Other names
- syn. amaurus Martini
- syn. grisescens Stephens
- syn. habibi Mulligan and Puri
- syn. missiroli Del Vecchio
- syn. pollutus Canamares
- syn. turkestani Shingarev
- syn. villosus Robineau-Desvoidy [3]
References
- ^ Kaiser, Norbert Becker, Dusan Petric, Marija Zgomba, Clive Boase, Minoo Madon, Christine Dahl, Achim (2010). Mosquitoes and Their Control (2nd ed. ed.). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. pp. 166–168. ISBN 978-3-540-92874-4.
{{cite book}}:|edition=has extra text (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Prothero, G.W. (1920). The Åland Islands. Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section. p. 3.
- ^ Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit: Systematic Catalog of the Culicidae, Anopheles claviger
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