The animal parasites of man : a handbook for students and medical men / by Max Braun.

  • Braun, Max (Maximilian Gustav Christian Carl), 1850-1930.
Date:
1906
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    Notes on the Different Genera. Sub-famfly A nophelina. Genus i. Anopheles, Meigen. [53^5^. Beschr. Europ. Zwei. Ins. I., 2 (1818). Meigen; Mono. Culicid., i., p. 191, andiii., p. 17, 1903.—-Theob.] This genus contains a few large species found eitlien in temperate climates or in hills and mountains of warm climates. The type is the European and North American A. macidipennis. Fig. 276.—Wing of Anopheles maoulipennis, Meigen. Anopheles macidipennis, Meigen. This species and A. hifiircatus are malaria carriers. True Anopheles only occur in Europe, North America, the North of Africa and in the Mountains of India, and one has recently been found by Bancroft similar to A. hifiircatus 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. Genus 2. Myzomyia, Blanchard ; Grassia, Theobald. [Comp. Rend. Heb. Soc. Biolog., Ho. 23, p. 795 (Blanchard) ; Mono. Culicid. iii., p, 24.—Theob.] This genus occurs in Asia, Africa and South America, Europe and East Indies. The type is M. funesta, Giles, found in Central and West Africa. Some fifteen species occur in this genus. Although structurally there is not much difference between this genus and Anopheles, they differ greatly in appearance, and there are usually a few. narrow-curved thoracic scales projecting over the head, whilst the wing scales are much smaller in pro- portion, and the wings more uniformly spotted, always so along the costa. Funesta is undoubtedly a malaria bearer. Genus 3. Cycloleppteron, Theobald, Mono. Culicid., ii., p. 312, 1903. Two species only occur in this genus, C. grahhamii, Theob., from Jamaica, and C. mediopunctatus, Theob. (Lutz., ms.), from South America. The chief character is the presence of large black inflated pyriform scales on the wings. The palpi are densely scaled. Neither have been shown to be malaria bearers.