Anopheles atratipes Skuse, 1889

AUSTRALASIAN REGION

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Etymology: clothed foot (L); dark legs

Type locality: Berowra, New South Wales, Australia

Type depository: Australian National Insect Collection, Canberra, Australia (ANIC)

TAXONOMIC KEYS

Lee et al. 1987b (Australasian Region)

 

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 - Australasia - Adult

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WRBU - Genera - Australasia - Larva

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WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Australasia - Adult

Exemplar DNA sequences

All Anopheles atratipes DNA sequences

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Australia

Distribution

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

Skuse 1889: 1755 (F)

Bancroft 1908: 12 (F; as genus Pyretophorus)

Lee & Woodhill 1944: 100 (M*, F*, L*)

Reid & Knight 1961: 477 (P*)

Dobrotworsky 1965: 45 (M*, F, L*)

Lee et al. 1987b: 16 (F; key, taxonomy, bionomics, distribution, review, type information)

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

None

 

CURRENT SUBSPECIES

None

 

CITED REFERENCES

Bancroft, T.L. (1908). List of the mosquitoes of Queensland, with the original descriptions and notes on the life-history of a number. Annals of the Queensland Museum, 8, 1–64.

Dobrotworsky, N.V. (1965). The mosquitoes of Victoria (Diptera, Culicidae). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

Lee, D.J., & Woodhill, A.R. (1944). The anopheline mosquitoes of the Australasian Region (Vol. 2). Australia: University of Sydney.

Lee, D.J., Dyce, A.L., & O’Gower, A.K. (1957). Blood-sucking flies (Diptera) and myxomatosis transmission in a mountain environment in New South Wales. Australian Journal of Zoology, 5(4), 355–401.

Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Griffiths, M., Debenham, M.L., Bryan, J.H., Russell, R.C., . . . Marks, E.N. (1987b). The Culicidae of the Australasian Region (Vol. 5). Commonwealth Department of Health, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine Monograph Series, 2. Canberra: Australian Government. 

Reid, J.A., & Knight, K.L. (1961). Classification within the subgenus Anopheles (Diptera, Culicidae). Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 55(4), 474–488.

Skuse, F.A.A. (1889). Diptera of Australia. Part V. The Culicidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 3, 1717–1764.

 

CITE THIS PAGE

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