Image of Anopheles freeborni Aitken 1939
Description:
This female Anopheles freeborni is taking a blood meal from a human host by pumping the ingested blood through her labrum, which is visible here as a thin red, needle-like structure between the mosquitos head and the hosts skin.
Created: 2004
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- 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 freeborni
- Panarthropoda
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- cc-publicdomain
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- James Gathany
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- Public Health Image Library
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