Morphometric Wing Characters as a Tool for Mosquito Identification.

ABSTRACT: Mosquitoes are responsible for the transmission of important infectious diseases, causing millions of deaths every year and endangering approximately 3 billion people around the world. As such, precise identification of mosquito species is crucial for an understanding of epidemiological patterns of disease transmission. Currently, the most common method of mosquito identification relies on morphological taxonomic keys, which do not always distinguish cryptic species. However, wing geometric morphometrics is a promising tool for the identification of vector mosquitoes, sibling and cryptic species included. This study therefore sought to accurately identify mosquito species from the three most epidemiologically important mosquito genera using wing morphometrics. Twelve mosquito species from

SUBMITTER: Wilke AB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4995034 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature