Image: Anopheles stephensi

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Description: An Anopheles stephensi mosquito is obtaining a blood meal from a human host through its pointed proboscis. Note the droplet of blood being expelled from the abdomen after having engorged itself on its host’s blood. This mosquito is a known malarial vector with a distribution that ranges from Egypt all the way to China. Source: CDC
Title: Anopheles stephensi
Credit: This media comes from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Public Health Image Library (PHIL), with identification number #5814. Note: Not all PHIL images are public domain; be sure to check copyright status and credit authors and content providers. English | Slovenščina | +/−
Author: Jim Gathany
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