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A mark-release-recapture demonstration of host-preference heterogeneity in Anopheles minimus Theobald (Diptera: Culicidae) in a Thai village

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

Suthas Nutsathapana ,
Phorn Sawasdiwongphorn ,
Udom Chitprarop ,
J. R. Cullen ,
R. F. Gass  and
C. A. Green
Suthas Nutsathapana
Affiliation:
Malaria Division, Ministry of Public Health, Bangkok, Thailand
Phorn Sawasdiwongphorn
Affiliation:
Malaria Division, Ministry of Public Health, Bangkok, Thailand
Udom Chitprarop
Affiliation:
Malaria Division, Ministry of Public Health, Bangkok, Thailand
J. R. Cullen
Affiliation:
Malaria Division, Ministry of Public Health, Bangkok, Thailand
R. F. Gass
Affiliation:
Department of Medical Entomology, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
C. A. Green*
Affiliation:
Department of Biology, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
*
Correspondence to C. A. Green.
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Abstract

Females of Anopheles minimus Theobald at a site in northern Thailand that were caught on man or domestic bovids and were released showed a significant tendency to return to the type of host upon which they were first caught (P = 0·03). From a total of 3526 individuals marked and released, 51 were recaptured. A simple explanation is that the taxon is in fact a mixture of two or more morphologically cryptic species, a suggestion already indicated by previous studies.

Type
Original Articles
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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 76 , Issue 2 , June 1986 , pp. 313 - 320
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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