Global InformationAnopheles tessellatus information
| Anopheles tessellatus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia
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| Phylum: | Arthropoda
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| Class: | Insecta
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| Order: | Diptera
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| Superfamily: | Culicoidea
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| Family: | Culicidae
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| Subfamily: | Anophelinae
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| Genus: | Anopheles
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| Species: | Anopheles tessellatus Theobald, 1901
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Anopheles (Cellia) tessellatus is a species complex of zoophilic mosquito belonging to the genus Anopheles. It is found in India, and Sri Lanka,[1] Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Laos, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam. It is first described from Sri Lanka (then Ceylon). Larvae are known to found from dirty stagnant water in sun or shady habitats. Adults are zoophilic. It is not regarded as a malaria vector, but is a secondary vector of Wuchereria bancrofti in Maldives.[2]
- ^ "An annotated checklist of mosquitoes of Sri Lanka" (PDF). Man and Biosphere Reserve of Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 June 2016. Retrieved 30 January 2017.
- ^ "Anopheles (Cel.) tessellatus". Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit. Retrieved 30 January 2017.