Anopheles watsonii (Leicester, 1908)

ORIENTAL REGION

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Etymology: Dr. Watson

Type locality: Near Klang [Selangor], Malaya [Malaysia]

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

 

TAXONOMIC KEYS

None

 

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 Anopheles watsonii DNA sequences

Associated Pathogens

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Malaysia

Distribution

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

Leicester 1908: 38 (F; Pyretophorus)

Christophers 1923b (F*)

Bonne-Wepster & Swellengrebel 1953: 262 (M*, F*, L*)

Reid 1968: 270 (M*, F*, P*, L*)

Kyalo et al. 2017 (distr.; sub-Saharan Africa)

Irish et al. 2020 (distr.; sub-Saharan Africa)

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

None

 

CURRENT SUBSPECIES

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CITED REFERENCES

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

Christophers, S.R. (1923b). An Anopheles of the Myzorhynchus group (Anopheles amazonicus sp. n.) from South America. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 17(1), 71–78.

Irish, S.R., Kyalo, D., Snow, R.W., & Coetzee, M. (2020). Updated list of Anopheles species (Diptera: Culicidae) by country in the Afrotropical Region and associated islands. Zootaxa, 4747(3), 401–449.

Kyalo, D., Amratia, P., Mundia, C.W., Mbogo, C.M., Coetzee, M., & Snow, R.W. (2017). A geo-coded inventory of anophelines in the Afrotropical Region south of the Sahara: 1898–2016. Wellcome Open Research, 2, 57.

Leicester, G.F. (1908). The Culicidae of Malaya. Studies from the Institute for Medical Research, Federated Malay States, 3(3), 18–261.

Reid, J.A. (1968). Anopheline mosquitoes of Malaya and Borneo. Studies from the Institute for Medical Research Malaysia, 31, 1–520.

 

CITE THIS PAGE

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