Anopheles saperoi Bohart & Ingram, 1946

PALEARCTIC REGION

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Etymology: James Joseph Sapero

Type locality: Chizuka, Okinawa, Ryukyu-Retto [Japan]

Type depository: U.S. National Museum, Washington, D.C., United States (USNM)

 

TAXONOMIC KEYS

Reid 1968

 

WRBU LUCID KEYS

 

adult mosquito key icon

WRBU - Genera - Global - Adult

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WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva

 adult mosquito key icon

WRBU - Genera - Eastern Palearctic - Adult

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WRBU - Genera - Eastern Palearctic - Larva

 

Exemplar DNA sequences

All Anopheles saperoi DNA sequences

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Japan

Distribution

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

Bohart & Ingram 1946a: 46 (F*, L*, E*)

Bohart & Ingram 1946b: 53 (F*, L*, E; bionomics, distribution, taxonomy)

Reid 1968: 143 (keys)

Tanaka et al. 1975c: 210 (taxonomy, distribution)

Tanaka et al. 1979: 68 (M*, F*, P, L*)

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

None

 

CURRENT SUBSPECIES

ssp. ohamai Ohama 

1947: 11 (M*, L*) (mimeographed). Type locality: Ishigaki Island [Ryukyu-Retto, Japan] (NMST). Distribution: Japan. References: Reid 1968: 143 (key); Tanaka et al. 1979: 71 (to ssp. of saperoi). Etymology: Shinken Ohama. 

 

CITED REFERENCES

Bohart, R.M., & Ingram, R.L. (1946a). Four new species of mosquitoes from Okinawa (Diptera: Culicidae). Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 36(2), 46–52.

Bohart, R.M., & Ingram, R.L. (1946b). Mosquitoes of Okinawa and islands in the Central Pacific. In US NAVMED (Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Navy Department).

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

Tanaka, K., Mizusawa, K., & Saugstad, E.S. (1979). A revision of the adult and larval mosquitoes of Japan (including the Ryukyu Archipelago and Ogasawara Islands) and Korea (Diptera: Culicidae). Contributions of the American Entomological Institute, 16, 1–987.

Tanaka, K., Saugstad, E.S., & Mizusawa, K. (1975c). Mosquitoes of the Ryukyu Archipelago (Diptera: Culicidae). Mosquito Systematics, 7(3), 207–233.

 

CITE THIS PAGE

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