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Claspette broad, fleshy, consisting of a dorsal lobe (Cl-DL) and a ventral 

 lobe (Cl-VL). The dorsal lobe apically with three overlapping spatulate 

 filaments; the ventral lobe with a large, pointed, apical spine and two smaller 

 subapical spines. Basistyle (Bs) conical, a little longer than broad, rounded 

 apically, clothed with long setae; two parabasal spines (P-S) and one in- 

 ternal spine (I-S) present. Dististyle (Ds) longer than basistyle and lacking 

 spicules (minute non-papillated hairs), curved, narrower medially, bluntly 

 pointed at tip; terminal claw (Ds-C) short, blunt. 



LARVA (Fig. 27). — Head: Inner clypeal hairs (2) simple, widely spaced; 

 outer clypeal (3) reduced, usually simple; postclypeal (4) simple or bifid. 



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Fig. 27. Larva of Anopheles harheri Coquilletl. A, Thorax and abdomen. 

 B, Pecten. C, Head. D, Leaflets of palmate hair. 



