Anopheles maculipennis

Phillips, A., Sabatini, A., Milligan, P. J.M., Boccolini, D., Broomsfield, G. and Molyneux, D. H. (1990a). The Anopheles maculipennis complex (Diptera Culicidae) comparison of the hydrocarbon profiles determined in adults of five palaeartic species. Bull. Entomol. Res., 80,459M64. 

Anopheles n-alkanes, mono-, di-, methylalkanes (C23 tO C47) A. gambiae complex A. gambiae, A. arabiensis A. quadrimaculus complex sp. A. maculipennis complex sp. Ratios of 3 pairs of peaks general hydrocarbon pattern Carlson and Service (1979,1980) Anyanwu et al. (1994, 2001), Caputo et al. (2007) Carlson etal. (1997) Phillips et al. (1990a)... 

Several species and populations from other Anopheles complexes have been discriminated based on CHC patterns. Examples include all five species of the An. quad-rimaculus complex (Carlson et al., 1997), some species of the An. maculipennis complex (Phillips et al., 1990a), malaria-vector and non-vector forms of the An. maculates complex (Kittayapong et al., 1990, 1993), and An. Stephensi strains susceptible or resistant to DDT and malathion (Anyanwu et al., 1993, 1997). CHCs have been used in combination with isoenzyme analysis to successfully differentiate populations of An. darlingi (Rosa-Freitas et al., 1992). All these findings demonstrate that hydrocarbon analysis is a powerful tool for distinguishing mosquito species and populations. This is particularly important for disease vectors, since it can facilitate interpretation of epidemiological data and assist implementation of control measures. 

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