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What is an anopheles?

What is an anopheles? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (entomology) Loose terminology for species in the Anopheles genus of mosquitoes, some of which may transmit various parasites, Plasmodium, that are the cause of malaria. More strictly speaking, as Anopheles is a proper name it should be capitalised.
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The anopheles is more common in the country, while the Culex is a city pest.
Tells about the symptoms of the disease and its spread by the female anopheles mosquito.
The infection is initiated when plasmodia sporozoites are injected by female anopheles mosquito during a blood meal.
If the body is stuck out nearly at right angles to the surface on which the insect is resting, it is an anopheles.
Other mosquitoes may be there in abundance, but if no anopheles, there is no malaria.
Of the thousands of mosquito types, only the genus anopheles transmits malaria to humans.

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