| Autor: |
Miguel Alfonso Pacheco, Ranulfo González, Helena Luisa Brochero |
| Jazyk: |
English<br />Spanish; Castilian |
| Rok vydání: |
2017 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Biomédica: revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud, Vol 37, Iss 0, Pp 124-134 (2017) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
0120-4157 |
| DOI: |
10.7705/biomedica.v37i0.3492 |
| Popis: |
Introduction: Natural populations of Anopheles darlingi, the main malaria vector in Colombia, have shown phenotypic variations in some of their diagnostic characters. Objective: To characterize morphometric variations in wing spot patterns and diagnostic characters of the hind leg of adult females of An. darlingi collected in areas where malaria is endemic. Materials and methods: Patterns of the costal vein spots of wild females of An. darling populations collected in the departments of Chocó, Guaviare, Meta and Vichada were analyzed using linear and morphometric approaches. The second tarsomere of the hind leg of females was characterized by linear morphometric analysis. Results: We found 19 patterns of spots in the costal vein; patterns I (n=118/240, 49%) and VI (n=66, 28%) were the most frequent. The proportion of the basal dark area of hind tarsomere II and the length of hind tarsomere II (DSIII2/Ta-III2) constituted a robust diagnostic character as it represented 89% (n=213/240) of the total specimens studied. Significant differences were found in the wing shape (F=1.65, df =50, p |
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