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APHC Entomological Sciences Mosquito Species Pages Army Public Health Center (Provisional), Entomological Sciences Program / COM 410-436-3613 / DSN 312-584-3613 / Website: http://phc.amedd.army.mil / Approved for Public Release, Distribution Unlimited TA-297-0116 Anopheles (Anopheles) punctipennis (Say), field –collected in Fort Bragg, NC, 2014; Character descriptions: Carpenter and LaCasse, 1955:48 ADULT FEMALE. Mediumsized species. Halter: Knob darkscaled. (Carpenter and LaCasse 1955:243 ) Head: Proboscis long, black; palpi about as long as the proboscis, dark scaled, with raised scales on basal part. Occiput clothed with erect forked scales, those on central part white, others dark; scales of vertex narrow, white; frontal tuŌ white. Thorax: Integument of scutum with a broad medan frosted stripe, dark brown laterally; the frosted area clothed with short paleyellow hairs, the darker lateral areas with larger dark setae. Scutellum crescentshaped, clothed with yellow hairs and long brown setae. P MPlp MPlp Stm Scu APHC APHC APHC

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Army Public Health Center (Provisional), Entomological Sciences Program / COM 410-436-3613 / DSN 312-584-3613 / Website: http://phc.amedd.army.mil / Approved for Public Release, Distribution Unlimited 

TA-297-0116

Anopheles (Anopheles) punctipennis (Say), field –collected in Fort Bragg, NC, 2014; Character descriptions: Carpenter and LaCasse, 1955:48

ADULT FEMALE. Medium‐sized species. Halter: Knob dark‐scaled. (Carpenter and LaCasse 1955:243 ) 

Head: Proboscis long, black; palpi about as long as the proboscis, dark‐scaled, with raised scales on basal part. Occiput clothed with erect forked scales, those on central part white, others dark; scales of vertex narrow, white; frontal tu  white.  

Thorax: Integument of scutum with a broad me‐dan frosted stripe, dark brown laterally; the frost‐ed area clothed with short pale‐yellow hairs, the darker lateral areas with larger dark setae. Scutellum crescent‐shaped, clothed with yellow hairs and long brown setae.  

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Anopheles (Anopheles) punctipennis (Say), field –collected in Fort Bragg, NC, 2014; Character descriptions: Carpenter and LaCasse, 1955:48 Ab

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Wing: Length about 4.0 mm. Scales black and pale yellow, in contras ng lines and spots (costa with a pale spot at outer third opposite  p of subcosta; vein 6 with basal fourth and apical half dark‐scaled; veins 3 and 5 en rely dark‐scaled).   Abd

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Bionomics:   The larvae are found in a large variety of aqua c habitats, including ponds, temporary pools, springs, pools in intermi ent streams, borrow pits, roadside puddles, wheel ruts in muddy roads, hog wallows, eddies along the margins of flowing streams, and in rain‐water barrels and other ar ficial containers. The species seems to prefer cool, clear water, par cularly in hill streams. The females feed mostly a er dusk but will a ack man during the day‐me in dense woodlands or in their daylight res ng places. This mosquito is generally regarded as an outdoor species 

and seldom enters dwellings in large numbers to feed. (Carpenter and LaCasse, 1955:05)  

Medical Importance:    Reported as an important vector of human malaria by Mullen & Durden (2002). 

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Male head.  

Legs dark‐scaled, femora and  biae  pped with pale scales.  APHC

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