Anopheles cruzii is the species of mosquito that mainly located in southern coast of Brazil, is main vector of malaria, Plasmodium vivax.[1]

Anopheles cruzii
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Culicidae
Genus: Anopheles
Subgenus: Kerteszia
Species:
A. cruzii
Binomial name
Anopheles cruzii
Dyar and Knab, 1908

It has been going through microevolution, which appears in its wing-shape and is correlated with urbanization.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "ITIS standard report - Anopheles cruzii - Dyar and Knab, 1908". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 11 March 2022.
  2. ^ Multini, Laura Cristina; Wilke, André Barretto Bruno; Marrelli, Mauro Toledo (2019-02-01). "Urbanization as a driver for temporal wing-shape variation in Anopheles cruzii (Diptera: Culicidae)". Acta Tropica. 190: 30–36. doi:10.1016/j.actatropica.2018.10.009. ISSN 0001-706X.