Anopheles nivipes (Theobald, 1903)

ORIENTAL & PALEARCTIC REGIONS

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Etymology: snowy foot (L); white leg markings

Type locality: Kuala Lumpur [Selangor], Malaya [Malaysia]

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

 

TAXONOMIC KEYS

Darsie & Pradhan 1990 (Nepal)

Rattanarithikul et al. 2006b (Thailand)

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 - Eastern Palearctic - Adult

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WRBU - Genera - Eastern Palearctic - Larva

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WRBU - Genera - Indomalaya - Adult

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WRBU - Genera - Indomalaya - Larva

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WRBU - Genera - Oriental - Adult

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WRBU - Genera - Oriental - Larva

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WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Indomalaya - Adult

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WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Indomalaya - Larva

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WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Oriental - Adult

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WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Oriental - Larva

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WRBU - Anopheles (Cel.) Neocellia Series - Oriental - Adult

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WRBU - Anopheles (Cel.) Neocellia Series - Oriental - Larva

 

Exemplar DNA sequences

All Anopheles nivipes DNA sequences

Associated Pathogens

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, People’s Republic of China, Thailand, Vietnam.

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

Theobald 1903f: 258 (M; Nyssorhynchus)

Reid 1967: 175 (M*, P*, L*; from synonymy)

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

Harrison et al. 1991 (1990): 223 (distribution; Thailand)

Darsie et al. 1996 (distribution; Nepal)

Subbarao et al. 2000: 71 (distribution; India)

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

Qu & Zhu 2008 (distribution; People’s Republic of China)

Morgan et al. 2009 (molecular phyl; Neocellia Series)

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

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

None

 

CURRENT SUBSPECIES

None

 

CITED REFERENCES

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

Darsie, R.F., Jr., Courtney, G.W., & Pradhan, S.P. (1996). Notes on the mosquitoes of Nepal. IV. Results of the 1994 collecting in the midwestern region, including new country records and voucher confirmation (Diptera, Culicidae). Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association, 12(1), 130–134.

Harrison, B.A., Rattanarithikul, R., Peyton, EL, & Mongkolpanya, K. (1991). Taxonomic changes, revised occurrence records and notes on the Culicidae of Thailand and neighboring countries. Mosquito Systematics, 22(for 1990)(3), 196–227.

Morgan, K., O’Loughlin, S.M., Mun-Yik, F., Linton, Y.-M., Somboon, P., Min, S., . . . Walton, C. (2009). Molecular phylogenetics and biogeography of the Neocellia Series of Anopheles mosquitoes in the Oriental Region. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 52(3), 588–601.

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.

Qu, F., & Zhu, H. (2008). On a checklist of the anopheline mosquitoes in China with rectification for some specific names. Chinese Journal of Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases, 26(3), 210–216.

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. (1967). Two forms of Anopheles philippinensis in Malaya. Journal of Medical Entomology, 4(2), 175–179.

Subbarao, S.K., Kumar, K.V., Nanda, N., Nagpal, B.N., Dev, V.,& Sharma, V.P. (2000). Cytotaxonomic evidence for the presence of Anopheles nivipes in India. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association, 16(2), 71–74.

Theobald, F.V. (1903f). New Culicidae from the Federated Malay States. The Entomologist, 36(485), 256–259.

 

CITE THIS PAGE

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