Abstract
Blood-feeding behavior of Anopheles species (Diptera: Culicidae) in the district of Ilha de Santana, state of Amapá, eastern Brazilian Amazon
Highlights
Malaria transmission in South America occurs in all Amazonian countries (Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana) (MS, 2020a)
For specimens belonging to the Albitarsis and Nuneztovari complexes, sequences of high quality could not be obtained, making comparisons with those deposited in GenBank impossible; in this study, the specimens were denominated as A. albitarsis s.l. and A. nuneztovari s.l., respectively
A. nuneztovari s.l. is considered an important malaria vector in Colombia and Venezuela (Rubio-Palis et al, 1992; Schoeler et al, 2003; Turell et al, 2008; Sinka et al, 2010; NaranjoDíaz et al, 2016), in Brazil this species is considered a secondary vector in some regions, in spite to be found frequently infected with Plasmodium
Summary
Malaria transmission in South America occurs in all Amazonian countries (Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana) (MS, 2020a). In Brazil, approximately 68 species of Anopheles Meigen, 1818 have already been reported, of which approximately 33 occur in the Brazilian Amazon, and 23 species have already been reported in the state of Amapá (Deane et al, 1948; Deane et al, 1971; Bergo et al, 2007; Galardo et al, 2015; Barbosa et al, 2016; WRBU, 2020) These species are distributed in five subgenera, with the ones with the greatest epidemiological importance in the subgenera Kerteszia Theobald, 1905 and Nyssorhynchus Blanchard, 1902 (Hiwat and Bretas, 2011). The degree of anthropophily is an essential condition for anopheline species to be considered an important vector of human malaria (Gouveia de Almeida, 2011) and, within the same taxon, the degree of anthropophyly may vary according to the region (Forattini, 2002)
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