Image of Anopheles minimus Theobald 1901
Description:
This close-up photograph shows an Anopheles minimus mosquito, a malaria vector of the Orient, as she was feeding on a human host. Note the blood meal that this mosquito had ingested, as it collected inside its stomach within its abdominal segment, extracting it from the host though its proboscis, which it had used to penetrate the skin, much like a straw.
Created: 2005
Included On The Following Pages:
- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
- Metazoa (Animal)
- Bilateria
- Protostomia (protostomes)
- Ecdysozoa (ecdysozoans)
- Arthropoda (arthropods)
- Pancrustacea
- Hexapoda (hexapods)
- Insecta (insects)
- Pterygota (winged insects)
- Neoptera (neopteran)
- Endopterygota (endopterygotes)
- Diptera (flies)
- Culicomorpha (Mosquitoes and Midges)
- Culicidae (mosquitoes)
- Anopheles (Marsh Mosquitoes)
- Anopheles minimus
- Panarthropoda
This image is not featured in any collections.
Source Information
- license
- cc-publicdomain
- photographer
- James Gathany
- provider
- Public Health Image Library
- original
- original media file
- visit source
- partner site
- Public Health Image Library
- ID