Anopheles latens

Taxobox | name = Anopheles knowlesi
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Hexapoda
classis = Insecta
subclassis = Pterygota
infraclassis = Neoptera
superordo = Endopterygota|
ordo = Diptera
subordo = Nematocera
infraordo = Culicomorpha
superfamilia = Culicoidea
familia = Culicidae
genus = Anopheles
species = "A. latens"
binomial = "Anopheles latens"
binomial_authority = Sallum, Peyton, Wilkerson, 2005

The "Anopheles latens" mosquito (part of the "A. leucosphyrus" group) [cite journal | author=Sallum MAM, Peyton EL, Wilkerson RC. | title=Six new species of the "Anopheles leucosphyrus" group, reinterpretation of "An. elegans" and vector implications. | journal=Med Vet Entomol | volume=19 | pages=158–99 | doi=10.1111/j.0269-283X.2005.00551.x | year=2005 ] is an important vector for the transmission of malaria in humans and monkeys in Southeast Asia.cite journal | year=1962 | title="Anopheles leucosphyrus" identified as a vector of monkey malaria in Malaya | journal=Science | volume=137 | pages=758 | pmid=14006429 | doi=10.1126/science.137.3532.758 | author=Wharton, R. H. | unused_data=Wharton RH, Eyles DE, Moorhouse DE. ] It is an important vector for the transmission of human malaria in Sarawak; but because it is attracted to both humans and to macaques it is also responsible for the transmission of simian malarias to humans ("Plasmodium knowlesi"cite journal | author=Vythilingam I, Tan CH, Asmad M, Chan ST, Lee KS, Singh B. | title=Natural transmission of "Plasmodium knowlesi" to humans by "Anopheles latens" in Sarawak, Malaysia | journal=Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg | year=2006 | volume=100 | pages=1087–88 | doi=10.1016/j.trstmh.2006.02.006 ] and possibly "P. inui" as well).

"A. latens" tends to bite from 6 p.m. throughout the night, peaking at midnight. It is found in forests and at forest fringes, but tends not to enter human dwellings.

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