Anopheles sineroides Yamada, 1924

PALEARCTIC REGION

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Etymology: like (Gr); resembling sinensis

Type locality: Bibai [Hokkaido], Japan

Type depository: Medical Zoology Laboratory, Institute for Infectious Diseases, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (IID)

 

TAXONOMIC KEYS

LaCasse & Yamaguti 1950

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 - Anopheles (Ano.) species - Eastern Palearctic - Adult

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WRBU - Anopheles (Ano.) species - Eastern Palearctic - Larva

 

Exemplar DNA sequences

All Anopheles sineroides DNA sequences

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Japan, People’s Republic of China, South Korea.

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

Yamada 1924: 233 (M, F)

LaCasse & Yamaguti 1950: 23 (M*, F*, P*, L*; keys)

Asanuma & Nakagawa 1954a: 370 (P*)

Hara 1957: 47 (P*)

Ohmori 1957 (M*, E*)

Ohmori 1959: 222 (P*)

Otsuru & Ohmori 1960: 53 (M*, F*, P, L, E*; taxonomy)

Kanda & Oguma 1977: 115 (hybridization with sinensis)

Tanaka et al. 1979: 81 (M*, F*, P, L*, E)

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

None

 

CURRENT SUBSPECIES

None

 

CITED REFERENCES

Asanuma, K., & Nakagawa, H. (1954a). A key to the genera of Japanese mosquitoes, based on pupal chaetotaxy. Japan Society of Medical Entomology and Zoology, 4, 362–375.

Hara, J. (1957). Studies on the female terminalia of Japanese mosquitoes. Japanese Journal of Experimental Medicine, 27, 45–91.

Kanda, T., & Oguma, Y. (1977). Hybridization between Anopheles sinensis and Anopheles sineroides. Mosquito News, 37(1), 115–117.

La Casse, W.J., & Yamaguti, S. (1950). Mosquito fauna of Japan and Korea. Kyoto, Japan: Office of the Surgeon, Headquarters 8th Army, US Army.

Ohmori, Y. (1957). On the male hypopygium of the sinensis group of anopheline mosquitoes in Japan. Acta médica et biological, Niigata, 5, 209–217.

Ohmori, Y. (1959). The pupae of Japanese Anopheles. Japanese Journal of Sanitary Zoology, 10, 210–225.

Otsuru, M., & Ohmori, Y. (1960). Malaria studies in Japan after World War II. Part II. The research for Anopheles sinensis sibling species group. Japanese Journal of Experimental Medicine, 30, 33–65.

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.

Yamada, S. (1924). A revision of the adult anopheline mosquitoes of Japan: Systematic descriptions, their habits and their relations to human diseases, together with an account of three new species. Scientific Reports from the Government Institute for Infectious Diseases, Tokyo Imperial University, 3, 215–241.

 

CITE THIS PAGE

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