Anopheles majidi Young & Majid, 1928

INDOMALAYAN & PALEARCTIC REGIONS

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Etymology: Sayid Abdul Majid

Type locality: Coorg, India

Type depository: Malaria Institute of India, Delhi, India [Collections transferred to the National Institute of Communicable Diseases, Delhi, India (Reinert 1973e:32); See NICD] (MSI); Natural History Museum, London, England, United Kingdom (NHMUK)

TAXONOMIC KEYS

Darsie & Pradhan 1990

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 - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Indomalaya - Adult

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WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Indomalaya - Larva

Exemplar DNA sequences

All Anopheles majidi DNA sequences

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Nepal.

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

Young & Majid 1928: 469 (M, F*, L*; karwari variety)

Christophers 1933: 226 (M*, F*, L*)

Khin-Maung-Kyi 1971d: 481 (distribution, bionomics)

Ahmed 1987 (distribution; Bangladesh)

Townsend 1990: 100 (type information)

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

Oo et al. 2004 (distribution; Myanmar)

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

None

 

CURRENT SUBSPECIES

None

 

CITED REFERENCES

Ahmed, T.U. (1987). Checklist of the mosquitoes of Bangladesh. Mosquito Systematics, 19(3), 187–200.

Christophers, S.R. (1933). The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Diptera. Vol. IV. Family Culicidae. Tribe Anophelini. London, England: Taylor and Francis.

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

Khin-Maung-Kyi. (1971d). The anopheline mosquitoes of Burma. 3. Subgenus Myzomyia Blanchard group Myzomyia. Union of Burma Journal of Life Sciences, 4(3), 473–483.

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

Townsend, B.C. (1990). Culicidae. In B.C. Townsend, J. E. Chainey, R.W. Crosskey, A.C. Pont, R.P. Lane, J.P.T. Boorman, & C.A. Crouch (Eds.), A catalogue of the types of bloodsucking flies in the British Museum (Natural History) (pp. 35–152). London, England: British Museum (Natural History).

Young, T.C.M., & Majid, S.A. (1928). A variety of Anopheles karwari collected in Coorg, S. India. Indian Journal of Medical Research, 16(2): 469–471.

 

CITE THIS PAGE

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