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Scientific classification 
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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 | |
Anopheles cruzii is the species of mosquito that mainly located in southern coast of Brazil, is main vector of malaria, Plasmodium vivax.
It has been going through microevolution, which appears in its wing-shape and is correlated with urbanization.
References
- "ITIS standard report - Anopheles cruzii - Dyar and Knab, 1908". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 11 March 2022.
- 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.
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