The Animal Parasites of Man

by Harold Benjamin Fantham; Max Braun; J. W. W. Stephens; Fred. V. Theobald

*Anopheles maculipennis, Meigen.
Anopheles bifurcatus, Linnæus.
*Myzomyia funesta, Giles.
Myzomyia lutzii, Theobald.
*Myzomyia rossii, Giles.
Myzomyia listonii, Liston.
Myzomyia culicifacies, Giles.
Pyretophorus superpictus, Grassi.
*Pyretophorus costalis, Loew.
Pyretophorus chaudoyei, Theobald.
*Cellia argyrotarsis, Robineau Desvoidy.
Myzorhynchus pseudopictus, Grassi.
Myzorhynchus barbirostris, Van der Wulp.
Myzorhynchus sinensis, Wiedemann.
Myzorhynchus paludis, Theobald.
Myzorhynchus mauritianus, Grandpré.
Neocellia stephensii, Liston.
Neocellia willmori, James.
Nyssorhynchus theobaldii, Giles.
Nyssorhynchus fuliginosus, Giles.
Nyssorhynchus annulipes, Walker.

Those marked with an asterisk (*) also carry the larvæ of Filaria bancrofti, as also do Myzorhynchus minutus, Theobald, and Myzorhynchus nigerrimus, Giles.

Genus. Anopheles, Meigen.

“Syst. Beschr. Europ. zwei. Ins. I,” 1818, ii, p. 2, Meigen; “Mono. Culicid.,” 1903, i, p. 191; iii, p. 17; and 1910, v, p. 3, Theobald.

Fig. 399.—Wing of Anopheles maculipennis, Meigen.

This genus contains a few large species found either in temperate climates or in hills and mountains of warm climates. The type is the European and North American A. maculipennis.

A. maculipennis, Meigen. This species and A. bifurcatus are malaria carriers. True Anopheles only occur in Europe, North America, the North of Africa and in the mountains of India, and one has been found by Bancroft similar to A. bifurcatus in Queensland. They are easily told by the absence of scales on thorax and abdomen, and by the rather densely scaled wings with lanceolate scales.