Development of a degree-day model to predict the growth of Anopheles stephensi (Diptera: Culicidae): implication for vector control management

Abbasi, Madineh; Oshaghi, Mohammad Ali; Mehdi Sedaghat, Mohammad; Hazratian, Teimour; Rahimi Foroushani, Abbas; Jafari-Koshki, Tohid; Reza Yaghoobi-Ershadi, Mohammad; Reza Abai, Mohammad; Vatandoost, Hassan; Fekri Jaski, Sajjad; Bozorg Omid, Faramarz; Hanafi-Bojd, Ahmad Ali

doi:10.1093/ee/nvad092

Development of a degree-day model to predict the growth of Anopheles stephensi (Diptera: Culicidae): implication for vector control management

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 Count…