Anopheles interruptus Puri, 1929

INDOMALAYAN REGION

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Etymology: n.s. [interrupted (L)]

Type locality: Sukna, Darjeeling District [West Bengal], India

Type depository: Natural History Museum, London, England, United Kingdom (NHMUK); Malaria Institute of India, Delhi, India [Collections transferred to the National Institute of Communicable Diseases, Delhi, India (Reinert 1973e:32); See NICD] (MSI); Zoological Survey of India, Indian Museum, Calcutta, India (IM)

TAXONOMIC KEYS

Darsie & Pradhan 1990

Rattanarithikul et al. 2006b

WRBU LUCID KEYS

 

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WRBU - Genera - Global - Adult

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WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva

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WRBU - Genera - Indomalaya - Adult

 larval key icon

WRBU - Genera - Indomalaya - Larva

 adult mosquito key icon

WRBU - Genera - Oriental - Adult

 larval key icon

WRBU - Genera - Oriental - Larva

 adult mosquito key icon

WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Indomalaya - Adult

 larval key icon

WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Indomalaya - Larva

 adult mosquito key icon

WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Oriental - Adult

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WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Oriental - Larva

Exemplar DNA sequences

All Anopheles interruptus DNA sequences

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Borneo; Brunei, Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Malaysia, Nepal, People’s Republic of China, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam.

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

Puri 1929a: 387 (M, P*, L*, E*; as variety)

Christophers 1933: 139 (M*, F*, L*, E*)

Puri 1949: 483 (to species)

Reid 1968: 203 (M*, F*, P*, L*, E*; taxonomy)

Ramalingam 1974 (distribution)

Harrison & Scanlon 1975: 140 (M*, F*, P*, L*; distribution)

Darsie & Pradhan 1990 (F, L; taxonomy, keys, bionomics, distribution; Nepal)

Rattanarithikul et al. 2006b (F*, L*; bionomics, keys, distribution )

Namgay et al. 2018 (bionomics, distribution; Bhutan)

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

None

 

CURRENT SUBSPECIES

None

 

CITED REFERENCES

Christophers, S.R. (1933). The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Diptera. Vol. IV. Family Culicidae. Tribe Anophelini. London, England: Taylor and Francis.

Darsie, R.F., Jr., & Pradhan, S.P. (1990). The mosquitoes of Nepal: Their identification, distribution and biology. Mosquito Systematics, 22(2), 69–130.

Harrison, B.A., & Scanlon, J.E. (1975). Medical entomology studies. II. The subgenus Anopheles in Thailand (Diptera: Culicidae). Contributions of the American Entomological Institute, 12(1), iv, 1–307.

Harrison, B.A., Scanlon, J.E., & Reid, J.A. (1973). A new synonomy and new species name in the Southeast Asian Anopheles hyrcanus complex. Mosquito Systematics, 5(4), 263–268.

Namgay, R., Drukpa, T., Wangdi, T., Pemo, D., Harbach, R.E., & Somboon, P. (2018). A checklist of the Anopheles mosquito species (Diptera: Culicidae) in Bhutan. Acta Tropica, 188, 206–212.

Puri, I.M. (1929a). Description of the male, female, egg and larva of Anopheles annandalei var. interruptus nov. var. with corrections for the previous descriptions of the type species. Indian Journal of Medical Research (Calcutta), 17(2), 385–395.

Puri, I.M. (1949). Anophelines of the Oriental Region. In M.F. Boyd (Ed.), Malariology: A comprehensive survey of all aspects of this group of diseases from a global standpoint, by 65 contributors. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders.

Ramalingam, S. (1974). Some new records of Anopheles from Sabah, Malaysia. Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health, 5(1), 147–148.

Rattanarithikul, R., Harrison, B.A., Harbach, R.E., Panthusiri, P., & Coleman, R.E. (2006b). Illustrated keys to the mosquitoes of Thailand. IV. Anopheles. Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health, 128(Suppl. 2), 2.

Reid, J.A. (1968). Anopheline mosquitoes of Malaya and Borneo. Studies from the Institute for Medical Research Malaysia, 31, 1–520.
 

CITE THIS PAGE

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