Anopheles elegans (James, 1903)

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Etymology: n.s. [fine, elegant (L)] 

Type locality: Karwar, Bombay, India

Type depository: Natural History Museum, London, England, United Kingdom (NHMUK)

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Exemplar DNA sequences

All Anophleles elegans DNA sequences

Associated Pathogens

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

India, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Thailand. 

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES:

James 1903: 51 (F*; Myzomyia?)

Reid 1949: 46 (from syn. with leucosphyrus)

Colless 1956: 75 (M, F*, P*, E; taxonomy)

Mendis et al. 1983 (P, L; bionomics)

Townsend 1990: 70 (improper type information)

Sallum et al. 2005: 180 (M, F, P*, L*; type info, taxonomy)

Sallum et al. 2005: 49 (M, F*, P*, L*)

Sallum et al. 2007: 30 (phylogeny) 

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

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CURRENT SUBSPECIES

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CITED REFERENCES

Colless, D.H. (1956). The Anopheles leucosphyrus group. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 108(3), 37–116.

James, S.P. 1903. Anopheles aitkenii, n. sp., p. 22. In: F. V. Theobald, A monograph of the Culicidae or mosquitoes. Vol. III, British Museum of Natural History, London. 359 p.

Mendis, K.N., Ihalamulla, R.L., Peljton, E.L., & Nanayakkara, S. (1983). Biology and descriptions of the larva and pupa of Anopheles (Cellia) elegans James (1903). Mosquito Systematics, 15(4), 318–324.

Reid, J.A. (1949). A preliminary account of the forms of Anopheles leucosphyrus Doenitz (Diptera: Culicidae). Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society B, 18(3–4), 42–53.

Sallum, M.A.M., Foster, P.G., Li, C., Sithiprasasna, R., & Wilkerson, R.C. (2007). Phylogeny of the Leucosphyrus Group of Anopheles (Cellia) (Diptera: Culicidae) based on mitochondrial gene sequences. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 100(1), 27–35.

Sallum, M.A.M., Peyton, EL, & Wilkerson, R.C. (2005a). Six new species of the Anopheles leucosphyrus group, reinterpretation of An. elegans and vector implications. Medical and Veterinary Entomology, 19, 158–199.

Sallum, M.A.M., Peyton, EL, Harrison, B.A., & Wilkerson, R.C. (2005b). Revision of the Leucosphyrus Group of Anopheles (Cellia) (Diptera: Culicidae). Revista Brasileira de entomología, 49(Suppl. 1), 1–152.

Townsend, B.C. (1990). Culicidae. In B.C. Townsend, J. E. Chainey, R.W. Crosskey, A.C. Pont, R.P. Lane, J.P.T. Boorman, & C.A. Crouch (Eds.), A catalogue of the types of bloodsucking flies in the British Museum (Natural History) (pp. 35–152). London, England: British Museum (Natural History).

 

CITE THIS PAGE

Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles elegans species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/elegans, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].