ORIENTAL & PALEARCTIC REGIONS
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Etymology: Takasagozaku [Japanese name for Taiwanese people]
Type locality: Takeng, Taiwan Valley, Pei Tung, Taichung, Taiwan [Republic of China]
Type depository: U.S. National Museum, Washington, D.C., United States (USNM)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
None
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Indomalaya - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Indomalaya - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Oriental - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Oriental - Larva
WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Indomalaya - Adult
WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Indomalaya - Larva
WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Oriental - Adult
WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Oriental - Larva
WRBU - Anopheles (Cel.) Neomyzomyia Series - Indomalaya - Adult
WRBU - Anopheles (Cel.) Neomyzomyia Series - Indomalaya - Larva
WRBU - Anopheles (Cel.) Neomyzomyia Series - Oriental - Adult
WRBU - Anopheles (Cel.) Neomyzomyia Series - Oriental - Larva
Exemplar DNA sequences
All Anopheles takasagoensis DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Cambodia, People’s Republic of China, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Morishita 1946: 21, 65 (M, F; leucosphyrus variety)
Stone 1963: 119 (Colless, in litt.; synonymy)
Peyton & Harrison 1980: 337 (from syn. with balabacensis)
Sallum et al. 2005: 51 (M*, F*, P*, L*; neotype designation, type locality information)
Sallum et al. 2007: 30 (phylogeny)
Qu & Zhu 2008 (distribution; People’s Republic of China)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Morishita, K. (1946). A new variety of Formosan Anopheles—Anopheles leucosphyrus var. takasagoensis var. nov. Journal of the Formosan Medical Association, 45(2), 2165–2170.
Peyton, EL, & Harrison, B.A. (1980). Anopheles takasagoensis an additional species in the Anopheles balabacensis complex of Southeast Asia (Diptera, Culicidae). Mosquito Systematics, 12(3), 335–347.
Qu, F., & Zhu, H. (2008). On a checklist of the anopheline mosquitoes in China with rectification for some specific names. Chinese Journal of Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases, 26(3), 210–216.
Sallum, M.A.M., Foster, P.G., Li, C., Sithiprasasna, R., & Wilkerson, R.C. (2007). Phylogeny of the Leucosphyrus Group of Anopheles (Cellia) (Diptera: Culicidae) based on mitochondrial gene sequences. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 100(1), 27–35.
Sallum, M.A.M., Peyton, EL, & Wilkerson, R.C. (2005a). Six new species of the Anopheles leucosphyrus group, reinterpretation of An. elegans and vector implications. Medical and Veterinary Entomology, 19, 158–199.
Stone, A. (1963). A synoptic catalog of the mosquitoes of the world, supplement II (Diptera: Culicidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 65(2), 117–140.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles takasagoensis species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/takasagoensis, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
