anopheles

From Ancient Greek ἀνωφελής (anōphelḗs, “useless”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əˈnɒfɪliːz/

anopheles (plural anopheles)

1. (entomology) Loose terminology for species in the Anopheles genus of mosquitoes, some of which may transmit various parasites, Plasmodium, that are the cause of malaria. More strictly speaking, as Anopheles is a proper name it should be capitalised.
   • 1901 May 24, H. Watkins-Pitchford, “Horse-sickness investigation”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record‎, volume 4, number 6, page 162:

     Analogy with the malaria-carrying mosquito points to the various kinds of anopheles, and perhaps to some species of the ordinary mosquito or culex, as being possible bearers of the disease.

   • 1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 1125:

     ‘I brought it back from the desert – they have been planting rice like fools, and now you get anopheles right up to the gates of Alexandria!’

• Anopheles
• anopheline

• phenolase, salophene