Madineh Abbasi, Mohammad Ali Oshaghi, Mohammad Mehdi Sedaghat, Teimour Hazratian, Abbas Rahimi Foroushani, Tohid Jafari-Koshki, Mohammad Reza Yaghoobi-Ershadi, Mohammad Reza Abai, Hassan Vatandoost, Sajjad Fekri Jaski, Faramarz Bozorg Omid, Ahmad Ali Hanafi-Bojd
Anopheles stephensi is an efficient vector of malaria parasites in Iran. Despite its importance in malaria transmission, there is a scarcity of accurate predictive models of its rates of development at different temperatures. A laboratory colony of An. stephensi, collected from Bandar Abbas County, southern Iran, was established, and all its developmental stages were maintained in temperature-controlled incubators so that the water temperature set at 5, 8, 10, 12.5, 14, 28, 38, 39.5, 42, and 45(±0.2) °C for different treatments until subsequent adult emergence...
September 21, 2023: Environmental Entomology