[Malaria mosquitoes of the Anopheles maculipennis (Diptera, Culicidae) complex in Georgia]

Med Parazitol (Mosk). 2008 Jul-Sep:(3):32-6.
[Article in Russian]

Abstract

Malaria mosquito larvae and imagoes underwent morphological, cytogenetic, and molecular genetic analyses in West and East Georgia. In the areas under study, the authors identified three related types of malaria mosquitoes of the maculipennis complex: An. maculipennis Meigen, 1818; An. melanoon Hacket, 1934; An. sacharovi Favre, 1903. The authors revealed the types An. maculipennis and An. melanoon in the Kolkhida cavity (West Georgia) and An. maculipennis and An. sacharovi in the Iveria cavity (East Georgia). The morphology of eggs was defined in the study types of mosquitoes. An. melanoon ovipositions similar in the exochorion pattern with An. messeae eggs were found in West Georgia.

Publication types

  • English Abstract
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Anopheles / anatomy & histology
  • Anopheles / classification*
  • Anopheles / genetics
  • Cytogenetic Analysis
  • DNA, Ribosomal Spacer / genetics
  • Genome, Insect
  • Georgia (Republic) / epidemiology
  • Insect Vectors / anatomy & histology
  • Insect Vectors / classification*
  • Insect Vectors / genetics
  • Malaria / epidemiology*
  • Malaria / transmission*
  • Ovum / cytology
  • Polymerase Chain Reaction
  • Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
  • Species Specificity

Substances

  • DNA, Ribosomal Spacer