Anopheles bellator

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{{Short description|Species of insect}}

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| genus = Anopheles

| parent = Anopheles (Kerteszia)

| species = bellator

| authority = Dyar and Knab, 1906

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Anopheles bellator is a species of mosquito mainly located in southeast of State of São Paulo, Brazil, is a main vector of malaria.{{Cite web |title=Anopheles bellator Dyar & Knab, 1906 {{!}} Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (WRBU) |url=https://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/bellator |access-date=2022-03-11 |website=wrbu.si.edu}}{{Cite journal |last1=Forattini |first1=Oswaldo Paulo |last2=Kakitani |first2=Iná |last3=Santos |first3=Roseli La Corte dos |last4=Ueno |first4=Helene Mariko |last5=Kobayashi |first5=Keilla Miki |date=1999–2011 |title=Role of Anopheles (Kerteszia) bellator as malaria vector in Southeastern Brazil (Diptera: Culicidae) |journal=Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz |language=en |volume=94 |issue=6 |pages=715–718 |doi=10.1590/S0074-02761999000600001 |issn=0074-0276|doi-access=free |pmid=10585643 }}{{Cite journal |last=Pittendrigh |first=Colin S. |year=1950 |title=The Ecoclimatic Divergence of Anopheles bellator and A. homunculus |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2405533 |journal=Evolution |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=43–63 |doi=10.2307/2405533 |jstor=2405533 |issn=0014-3820|url-access=subscription }}