Malaria vector mosquito images

We created a novel database of mosquito images by sampling live mosquitoes from established colonies maintained by the Malaria Research and Reference Reagent Resource (MR4)/ Biodefense and Emerging Infections (BEI) Resources at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, GA. Adults of both sexes were imaged from 15 species of mosquitoes from there genera, 13 Anopheles, 2 Culex and 1 Aedes. There are a total of 1,709 images. We included an additional strain of An. gambiae s.s. resulting in two categories of this species: G3 and KISUMU1. Finally, for An. stephensi we captured images of mosquitoes using the two methods of storing mosquitoes, freezing versus dried samples. Images are folders labeled by genus, species, strain, sex and storage method.