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Hyracanus Group
No
Yes
Wild
P. vivax
-infected Hyracanus Group mosquitoes were found in Assam,
India (
Rattanarithikul et al., 1996
;
Prakash et al., 2004
).
An. messeae
Falleroni
Yes
Yes(?)
An. messeae
was implicated as a vector of
P. vivax
in eighteenth and nineteenth
century Finland (
Hulden et al., 2008
;
Hulden, 2009
) and the authors refer
to evidence of
An. messeae
as a vector in Russia (
Sokolova and Snow, 2002
),
but only indirect evidence linking malaria incidence with vector density
was provided.
An. nimpe
Nguyen,
Tran & Harbach
No (part of the
Hyracanus
Group)
Yes(?)
An. nimpe
was implicated as a vector (
Nguyen et al., 2000
) of
P. vivax
and
P. falciparum
after being sampled in coastal Viet Nam, but direct evidence
of infection was not available.
An. philippinensis-
nivipes
complex
No
Yes
Wild-infected
An. philippinensis-nivipes s.l.
specimens were found to be posi-
tive for
P. vivax
in Assam, India (
Prakash et al., 2004
).
An. pulcherrimus
Theobald
No
Yes
An. pulcherrimus
is thought to be the main vector in Afghanistan (
Brooker
et al., 2006
).
Plasmodium vivax
(VK210 and VK247 subtypes) was detected
in specimens collected in Afghanistan (
Rowland et al., 2002
) and
P. vivax
circumsporozoite proteins were detected though enzyme-linked immuno-
sorbent assay (ELISA) in wild-infected wild-infected mosquitoes (the vast
majority of which were
An. pulcherrimus
), but the authors do not explicitly
state that
P. vivax
was found in
An. pulcherrimus
(
Faulde et al., 2007
).
An. sacharovi
Favre
Yes (part of the
Maculipennis
Subgroup)
Yes
P. vivax
circumsporozoite antigens were detected in wild populations sampled
in Turkey (
Simsek et al., 2010
).
P. vivax
oocysts and sporozoites were
detected in the salivary glands of a laboratory colony of
An. sacharovi
fed on
vivax infected humans (
Kasap, 1990
).
An. sawadwongporni
Rattanarithikul
& Green
No (part of the
Maculatus
Group)
Yes
P. vivax
(VK247) was detected in specimens collected in Thailand (
Coleman
et al.
, 2002
).
An. sergentii
(Theobald)
Yes
Yes
P. vivax
circumsporozoite proteins were detected in
An. sergentii
specimens
sampled from desert oases in Egypt (
Kenawy et al., 1990
).
