Anopheles limosus King, 1932

INDOMALAYAN REGION

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Etymology: muddy or growing in mud (L); larval habitat

Type locality: Balintawak [Rizal], Luzon, Philippines

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

TAXONOMIC KEYS

Cagampang-Ramos & Darsie 1970

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 - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Indomalaya - Adult

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WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Indomalaya - Larva

Exemplar DNA sequences

All Anophles limosus DNA sequences

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Indonesia, Philippines.

Distribution

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

King 1932a: 330 (M*, F*, L*; as variety)

Baisas 1936a: 216 (P*)

Colless 1948: 115 (M*, F*, L*; to subspecies)

Bonne-Wepster & Swellengrebel 1953: 432 (M*, F*, L*)

Cagampang-Ramos & Darsie 1970 (F*, L*; keys)

Basio 1971b: 47 (M*, F*; bionomics; as vagus subspecies)

Ramalingam 1974 (as valid species)

Baisas 1974: 74 (M, F*, P, L*, E*; taxonomy, bionomics, distribution; Philippines)

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

None

 

CURRENT SUBSPECIES

None

 

CITED REFERENCES

Baisas, F.E. (1936a). Notes of Philippine mosquitoes. VI. The pupal characters on anophelines of the subgenus Myzomyia. Philippine Journal of Science, 61(2), 205–245.

Baisas, F.E. (1974). The mosquito fauna of Subic Bay Naval Reservation, Republic of the Philippines. San Francisco, CA: First Medical Service Wing (PACAF), Technical Report 72-2.

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.

Cagampang-Ramos, A., & Darsie, R.F., Jr. (1970). Illustrated keys to the Anopheles mosquitoes of the Philippine Islands. US Air Force 5th Epidemiology Flight, PACAF, Technical Report 70-1, 1–49.

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.

King, W.V. (1932a). The Philippine Anopheles of the Rossi-Ludlowi group. Philippine Journal of Science, 47(3), 305–342.

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

 

CITE THIS PAGE

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