“…The identification of species is essential for vector incrimination, the measurement of epidemiological risk and the development of management programs for malaria (Sinka, 2010); the focus of these works are guided to mosquitoes belonging to the genus Anopheles , which contains all known malaria vectors, with a significant number of representatives considered complex species (Foster, 2013), these are considered morphologically indistinguishable and in other cases phenotypic plasticity makes identification difficult, due to similarity with closely related species (Sallum, 2000). In these cases of taxonomic complexity, only approaches with markers and molecular tools allow to resolve the identity, relationships between species and vector incrimination (Porter & Collins, 1991, Paskewitz, 1993, Cornel, 1996, Cywinska, 2006, Marelli, 2006, Zapata, 2007, Hoyos-López et al 2012a, Hoyos-López et al 2012b, Hoyos et al 2015a, Hoyos et al 2015b, Hoyos et al 2015c, Hoyos et al 2016, Hoyos et al 2017).…”