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Ecological notes on species A and B of the Anopheles gambiae complex in the Kisumu area of Kenya

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

M. W. Service
M. W. Service
Affiliation:
The Nature Conservancy, Monks Wood Experimental Station, Abbots Ripton, Huntingdon
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During November and December 1969, larvae and adults of the Anopheles gambiae complex from the Kisumu area of Kenya were identified by cytogenetical methods as species A and B. There appeared to be no difference between their choice of larval habitats. Although adults of both species were common in village huts, species B comprised 80·6% of the exophilic population. Adults of both species caught from huts and out of doors had fed predominantly on bovids; the incidence of human feeds was below 40%. The impact of residual insecticidal house-spraying would depend on the relative sizes of the endophilic and exophilic populations of species B.

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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 60 , Issue 1 , August 1970 , pp. 105 - 108
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1970

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