Anopheles tenebrosus
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 tenebrosus
Visual Description
Anopheles tenebrosus exhibits the characteristic slender body form typical of the genus Anopheles. Observations from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset indicate that the species possesses long, thin legs and narrow, elongated wings, which are standard morphological features for mosquitoes in this family.[1]
Ecology and Behavior
Anopheles tenebrosus is recognized as an exophilic mosquito species. Research into its spatial ecology has shown that it often rests in shaded environments, such as those provided by canopy cover, at varying distances from human habitations. In studies utilizing resting clay pots for sampling, An. tenebrosus has been collected in association with other Anopheles species, including Anopheles arabiensis and Anopheles pharoensis.[2]
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References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Culicidae / Anopheles / tenebrosus constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Yared Debebe; Sharon R. Hill; Habte Tekie; Rickard Ignell; Richard Hopkins. Shady business: understanding the spatial ecology of exophilic Anopheles mosquitoes. Malaria Journal. 2018. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-018-2499-7.