The Aquatic Invertebrates of Texas

Diptera

(Mosquitoes & Flies)

CULICIDAE

Anopheles quadrimaculatus Say

Common Malaria Mosquito


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Distribution Citations

1922 Dyar

1940 Fisk & Levan
1943 McGregor & Eads
1943 Ross
1944 Randolf & O'Neill
1949 McCleskey

1950 Rueger & Druce
1951 Eads Menzies Ogden
[1955 Carpenter & LaCasse]
1957 Eads & Strom
1958 Hill Smittle Philips

1960 Eads Foyle Peel
[1963 Dodge]
[1965 Wiseman]

 

[1981 Darsie & Ward]
[1983 Stone et al.]

[1997 Arnett]

2005 Bradford et al.
2005 Darsie & Ward
2005 Murrell

[ ] indicate state record, no specific county or locality indicated

notes:

-Henderson county record of A. quadrimaculatus may be A. smargdinus (Murrell 2005)

-breeds throughout the year McGregor & Eads 1943)

-larvae in fresh pools, ponds, tanks, swamps and marshes (Randolf & O'Neill 1944)

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                          2010

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