Anopheles karwari (James, 1903)

INDO-ORIENTAL REGION

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Etymology: Karwar, India.

Type locality: Karwar, Bombay, India.

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

 

TAXONOMIC KEYS

Nguyen Thuong Hien 1968 

Lee et al. 1987b: 213

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

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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 - Australasia - Adult

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

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

Exemplar DNA sequences

All Anopheles karwari DNA sequences

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, People’s Republic of China, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam.

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

James 1903: 102 (F*; Nyssorhynchus)

D’Abrera 1944: 357 (E*)

Colless 1948: 104 (M*, F*, L*)

Penn 1949b: 14 (P*)

Bonne-Wepster & Swellengrebel 1953: 460 (M*, F*, L*)

Nguyen Thuong Hien 1968 (F*, L*; keys, taxonomy, bionomics, distribution; Vietnam)

Reid 1968: 360 (M*, F*, P*, L*, E*; taxonomy)

Aslamkhan 1971b (distribution; Pakistan)

Basio 1971b: 40 (M*, F*; bionomics)

Lee et al. 1987b: 213 (F; key, taxonomy, bionomics, distribution, review)

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

Oo et al. 2004 (distribution; Myanmar) 

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

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

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

syn. nigrans Stanton

1912: 7 (new name for karwari James 1903; in error).  References: Christophers 1933: 288 (taxonomy).

 

CURRENT SUBSPECIES

None

 

CITED REFERENCES

Aslamkhan, M. (1971b). The mosquitoes of Pakistan. I. A checklist. Mosquito Systematics, 3(4), 147–159.

Basio, R.G. (1971b). The mosquito fauna of the Philippines (Diptera, Culicidae). Monograph No. 4). Manila, Philippines: National Museum of the Philippines.

Bonne-Wepster, J., & Swellengrebel, N.H. (1953). The anopheline mosquitoes of the Indo-Australian Region. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: de Bussy.

Christophers, S.R. (1916b). A revision of the nomenclature of Indian Anophelini. Indian Journal of Medical Research (Calcutta), 3(3), 454–488.

Colless, D.H. (1948). The anopheline mosquitoes of north-west Borneo. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 73(3–4), 71–119.

D’Abrera, V.S.E. (1944). The eggs of the Ceylon anopheline mosquitoes. Journal of the Malaria Institute of India, 5(3), 337–359.

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., & Pradhan, S.P. (1991). The mosquitoes of Nepal their identification, distribution and biology. Index and corrigendum. Mosquito Systematics, 23(1), 46–49.

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.

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.

Nguyen Thuong Hien. (1968). The genus of Anopheles in Vietnam (Military Entomology Information Service, Trans.). Saigon: Bureau of Entomology, National Malaria Program/Republic of Vietnam.

Oo, T.T., Storch, V., & Becker, N. (2004). Review of the Anopheles mosquitoes of Myanmar. Journal of Vector Ecology, 29(1), 21–40.

Penn, G.H. (1949b). The pupae of the mosquitoes of New Guinea. Pacific Science, 3(1), 3–85.

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.

Stanton, A.T. (1912). The Anopheles mosquitoes of Malaya and their larvae, with some notes on malaria-carrying species. Journal of the London School of Tropical Medicine, 2(1), 3–11.

Theobald, F.V. (1903a). A monograph of the Culicidae of the World (Vol. 3). London, England: British Museum (Natural History).

 

CITE THIS PAGE

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