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We evaluated the attraction of non-blood-fed female Anopheles stephensi Liston, 1901 mosquitoes (Bandar Abbas strain, laboratory population) to four chemical components found in vertebrate host odors (at 5 dilutions) and their blends using an olfactometer in laboratory conditions. When each compound was combined with CO2, three of the four tested compounds showed significant attractancy (P\u2009&amp;lt;\u20090.05) at their optimal dilutions. Hexanoic acid was the most attractive, followed by 3-methyl-1-butanol and L-lactic acid. We created five blends using the most attractive dilutions, and two of these blends significantly attracted mosquitoes in the olfactometer (P\u2009&amp;lt;\u20090.05). The most promising blend contained 3-methyl-1-butanol and hexanoic acid. 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