Anopheles amictus
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Culicidae
- Genus: Anopheles
- Species: Anopheles amictus
Visual Description
Anopheles amictus exhibits the characteristic morphology of the genus Anopheles, including a slender body and long, thin legs. Observations from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset indicate that these mosquitoes possess wings with distinct dark and light scaling patterns, often appearing mottled or speckled.[1] The proboscis is typically long and straight, adapted for piercing.[1]
Biology and Ecology
Anopheles amictus was described by F.W. Edwards in 1921.[2] As a member of the family Culicidae, it shares general biological characteristics with other mosquitoes, including a life cycle involving aquatic larval stages and terrestrial adult stages. Research into related Anopheles species, such as Anopheles gambiae, has explored the use of entomopathogenic fungi like Metarhizium anisopliae as potential biological control agents to reduce mosquito survival and vectorial capacity.[3]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 3 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Culicidae / Anopheles / amictus constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Anopheles amictus Edwards, 1921. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/1650548. Accessed 2026-07-09.
- ↑ Ernst‐Jan Scholte; Basilio N Njiru; Renate C. Smallegange; Willem Takken; Bart GJ Knols. Infection of malaria (Anopheles gambiae s.s.) and filariasis (Culex quinquefasciatus) vectors with the entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium anisopliae. Malaria Journal. 2003. https://doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-2-29.