Rasnitsyn S P, Iasiukevich V V, Zvantsov A B, Artem'ev M M
Med Parazitol (Mosk). 1990 Jan-Feb(1):7-9.
The laboratory self-reproducing colony An. superpictus was generated. The basis for the colony was Stages I and II larvae collected in the localities of Dushanbe. Adult mosquitoes were kept in hutches of 0.2 m3 in volume, rabbits are used as donors. The larvae are fed with the mixture which had been used while generating laboratory colony An. sacharovi. Since the creation of the colony and until recently (1.5 years) 30 generations have superseded in it.