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We used ecological niche models to identify climatically suitable areas for\n                      <jats:italic>An. pseudopunctipennis<\/jats:italic>\n                      in Argentina, using occurrence records and bioclimatic variables from WorldClim 2.1. Records were compiled from the literature, biodiversity databases, and personal collections, and were filtered to remove duplicates, records lacking reliable coordinates, and records with high geographic uncertainty. To reduce the effect of clustered sampling on model calibration, occurrences were spatially thinned at 5 km. Models were calibrated with MaxEnt in the northwestern accessible area of the species in Argentina, testing combinations of feature classes and regularization multipliers. Candidate models were evaluated using omission rate, validation Area Under the Curve, and Akaike Information Criterion with Correction. After filtering, 312 records from 287 localities were retained. The best-supported model used LQHP features with regularization multiplier 1.0 and showed an average 10% omission rate of 0.11, validation AUC of 0.83, and the lowest AICc among candidate models (\u0394AICc = 0). Suitable conditions were concentrated mainly in northwestern Argentina, especially in Jujuy, Salta, Tucum\u00e1n, and Catamarca, with additional suitable areas in parts of Santiago del Estero, San Juan, San Luis, C\u00f3rdoba, Formosa, and Chaco. These results provide a first approximation of climatically suitable areas for\n                      <jats:italic>An. pseudopunctipennis<\/jats:italic>\n                      in Argentina and may support vector surveillance in a country where malaria has been eliminated but remains at risk of reintroduction.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.2987\/25-7244","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,5,30]],"date-time":"2026-05-30T00:32:06Z","timestamp":1780101126000},"page":"173-175","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["MODELING THE POTENTIAL CLIMATIC SUITABILITY OF ANOPHELES PSEUDOPUNCTIPENNIS, THE HISTORICAL VECTOR OF MALARIA IN ARGENTINA"],"prefix":"10.2987","volume":"42","author":[{"given":"Paul L.","family":"Duque","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Unidad Ejecutora Lillo (CONICET-Fundaci\u00f3n Miguel Lillo), San Miguel de Tucum\u00e1n, Tucum\u00e1n, Argentina"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Renato","family":"Le\u00f3n","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Laboratorio de Entomolog\u00eda M\u00e9dica y Medicina Tropical LEMMT, Colegio de Ciencias Biol\u00f3gicas y Ambientales COCIBA, Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ, Quito, Ecuador"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Roberto D.","family":"Coello Peralta","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Departamento de Microbiolog\u00eda, Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Universidad de Guayaquil, Guayaquil, Ecuador"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Edecio I.","family":"Villarroel Mart\u00ednez","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Unidad Ejecutora Lillo (CONICET-Fundaci\u00f3n Miguel Lillo), San Miguel de Tucum\u00e1n, Tucum\u00e1n, Argentina"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jonathan","family":"Liria-Salazar","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Grupo de Investigaci\u00f3n en Poblaci\u00f3n y Ambiente, Universidad Regional Amaz\u00f3nica Ikiam, Tena, Ecuador"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Mar\u00eda J.","family":"Dantur Juri","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Unidad Ejecutora Lillo (CONICET-Fundaci\u00f3n Miguel Lillo), San Miguel de Tucum\u00e1n, Tucum\u00e1n, Argentina"},{"name":"Instituto de Gen\u00e9tica y Microbiolog\u00eda, Fundaci\u00f3n Miguel Lillo, San Miguel de Tucum\u00e1n, Tucum\u00e1n, Argentina"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1569","reference":[{"key":"i1943-6270-42-2-173-ref01","series-title":"Ecography","first-page":"541","article-title":"spThin: an R package for spatial thinning of species occurrence records for use in ecological niche models","volume":"38","author":"Aiello-Lammens","year":"2015","unstructured":"Aiello-Lammens ME,\nBoria RA,\nRadosavljevic A,\nVilela B,\nAnderson RP. 2015. spThin: an R package for spatial thinning of species occurrence records for use in ecological niche models. 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