在马来西亚沙巴,巴拉巴按蚊Anopheles(cellia)balabacensis Balsas是人和猴疟的媒介。1969年Barclay怀疑在沙巴的巴拉巴按蚊为周期型班氏丝虫的媒介。因而,作者于1983年3月在沙巴基纳巴唐岸河上游丝虫病流行区梅纳曼村进行了调查,结果如下:调查161人,班氏丝虫阳性率26.7%;从野外捕获17只巴拉巴按蚊,经解剖其中一只查 Anopheles (cellia) balabacensis Balsas is an agent of malaria in humans and macaques in Sabah, Sabah, Malaysia. In 1969, Barclay suspects that the Anopheles parabasa in Sabah is a vector for the periodic bancroftian filariasis. Thus, in March 1983, the author conducted a survey in Menamen, an endemic area of ​​endemic filariasis in Kinabatangu, Sabah. Results were as follows: 161 people were surveyed, and the positive rate of Bancroftian filariasis was 26.7%; 17 were captured from the wild Anopheles Paraiba, one of the anatomy after investigation