What is Anopheles?
{{italictitle}} {{automatic taxobox | image = Anopheles stephensi.jpeg | image_caption = ''[[Anopheles stephensi]]'' | taxon = Anopheles | authority = [[Johann Wilhelm Meigen|Meigen]] 1818 | range_map = Anopheles-range-map.png | range_map_caption = ''Anopheles'' range map | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = For a full description, see section [[Anopheles#Systematics|Systematics]] and the main article: [[Taxonomy of Anopheles]]<br/> Some important species are: {{div col|colwidth=100px}} * ''[[Anopheles albimanus|A. albimanus]]'' * ''[[Anopheles arabiensis|A. arabiensis]]'' * ''[[Anopheles barberi|A. barberi]]'' * ''[[Anopheles bellator|A. bellator]]'' * ''[[Anopheles crucians|A. crucians]]'' * ''[[Anopheles cruzii|A. cruzii]]'' * ''[[Anopheles culicifacies|A. culicifacies]]'' * ''[[Anopheles darlingi|A. darlingi]]'' * ''[[Anopheles dirus|A. dirus]]'' * ''[[Anopheles earlei|A. earlei]]'' * ''[[Anopheles freeborni|A. freeborni]]'' * ''[[Anopheles funestus|A. funestus]]'' * ''[[Anopheles gambiae|A. gambiae]]'' <small>(Giles 1902)</small> * ''[[Anopheles introlatus|A. introlatus]]'' * ''[[Anopheles latens|A. latens]]'' * ''[[Anopheles maculipennis|A. maculipennis]]'' * ''[[Anopheles moucheti|A. moucheti]]'' * ''[[Anopheles nili|A. nili]]'' * ''[[Anopheles punctipennis|A. punctipennis]]'' * ''[[Anopheles quadrimaculatus|A. quadrimaculatus]]'' * ''[[Anopheles stephensi|A. stephensi]]'' * ''[[Anopheles subpictus|A. subpictus]]'' * ''[[Anopheles sundaicus|A. sundaicus]]'' * ''[[Anopheles walkeri|A. walkeri]]'' {{div col end}} }} '''''Anopheles''''' <ref>Greek for 'good-for-nothing'</ref> is a [[genus]] of [[mosquito]].<ref>Meigen J.W. 1818. ''Systematische Beschreibung der Bekannten Europäischen Zweiflügeligen Insekten'', vol 1. Forstmann, Aachen.</ref> There about 460 species, and over 100 can transmit human [[malaria]]. Only 30–40 commonly transmit [[parasites]] of the [[genus]] ''[[Plasmodium]]'', which causes human malaria in [[endemism|endemic]] areas. ''[[Anopheles gambiae]]'' is one of the best known,