LARVAL HABITATS OF MALARIA VECTORS AND OTHER ANOPHELES MOSQUITOS AROUND A TRANSMISSION FOCUS IN NORTHWESTERN THAILAND

We sampled 199 bodies of water for Anopheles larvae around a malaria-e ndemic village near Mae Sot, Thailand, over 2 years. Anopheles dirus s pecies A and D occurred in 54 small, well-shaded, stream and temporary , ground pools. The larval habitat of species D is reported for the fi rst time. Anopheles minimus species A occurred in 8 samples from slow- moving streams, in 8 from rice fields, and in 2 from ground pools. Ano pheles pseudowillmori occurred in one sample from a ground pool, in 3 from streams, and in 9 from rice fields.