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Sir Ronald Ross, who was born in India and British by nationality, discovered that female anopheles mosquito causes malaria. He called that mosquito as a mosquito with dappled wings, as he was not a zoologist.

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Malaria is spread by the female mosquito of several species of the Anopheles genus.

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What is the name of male mosquito which causes malaria?

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