Identificación de especies de anopheles de importancia médica en el departamento de Sucre, Colombia

Abstract

In Colombia, Anopheles, subgenus Nyssorhynchus have a great importance in tropical medicine since this subgenus contains most of found the vectoras species of the malaria in the country. Sucre, located to the north of Colombia, presents bioclimatics conditions that favor the development of Anophelespertaining to the  Nyssorhynchus subgenus, nevertheless the knowledge on this is little. In order to verify the presence of species of the subgenus in two subregions of Sucre (Sabana and Golfo de Morrosquillo), one inventory of Anopheles mosquitoes was made, using for its capture human bait. For the identification of the species taxonomic keys were used. A total of 221 especimenes pertaining to five species of Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) was collected: A. albimanus, A. triannulatus, A.marajoara, A. Pseudopunctipennis and A. nunestovari of which two are considered like main vectors of the malaria (A. albimanus and  A. nunestovari) and one like secondary vector (A. pseudopunctipennis).