Anopheles earlei Vargas, 1943

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Etymology: Walter Clarence Earle

Type locality: Jefferson County, Wisconsin, United States

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

TAXONOMIC KEYS

Carpenter & LaCasse 1955

White 1978

Darsie & Ward 2005

Harrison et al. 2016

 

WRBU LUCID KEYS

 

 adult mosquito key icon

WRBU - Genera - Global - Adult

 larval key icon

WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva

adult mosquito key icon

WRBU - Genera - Nearctic - Adult

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WRBU - Genera - Nearctic - Larva

Exemplar DNA sequences

All Anopheles earlei DNA sequences

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Canada, United States (Alaska, continental).

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

Vargas 1943b: 9 (M*)

Darsie 1949: 518 (P*)

Penn 1949a: 60 (P*)

Pratt 1952: 484 (P*, L*; taxonomy)

Rozeboom 1952: 477 (M*, L, E*; bionomics, taxonomy)

Carpenter & LaCasse 1955: 37 (M*, F*, L*; keys)

Stone & Knight 1956b: 277 (type information)

Kitzmiller & Baker 1965: 275 (chromosomes*)

Wallis & Whitman 1971 (bionomics)

White 1978 (taxonomy, review, keys, distribution)

Porter & Collins 1996 (molecular phylogeny; Nearctic)

Darsie & Ward 2005 (F*, L*; keys, distribution)

Harrison et al. 2016 (F*, L*; keys, distribution)

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

None

 

CURRENT SUBSPECIES

None

 

CITED REFERENCES

Carpenter, S.J., & LaCasse, W.J. (1955). Mosquitoes of North America (North of Mexico). Berkeley: University of California Press.

Darsie, R.F. (1949). Pupae of the anopheline mosquitoes of the northeastern United States (Diptera, Culicidae). Revista de entomología, 20(1–3), 509–530.

Darsie, R.F., Jr., & Ward, R.A. (2005). Identification and geographical distribution of the mosquitoes of North America, north of Mexico. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

Harrison, B.A., Byrd, B.D., Sither, C.B., & Whitt, P.B. (2016). The Mosquitoes of the Mid-Atlantic Region: An Identification Guide. Western Carolina University Mosquito and Vector-Borne Infectious Disease Laboratory.

Kitzmiller, J.B., & Baker, R.H. (1965). The salivary chromosomes of Anopheles earlei. Canadian Journal of Genetics and Cytology, 7(2), 275–283.

Penn, G.H. (1949a). Pupae of the Nearctic anopheline mosquitoes north of Mexico. Journal of the National Malaria Society, 8(1), 50–69.

Porter, C.H., & Collins, F.H. (1996). Phylogeny of Nearctic members of the Anopheles maculipennis species group derived from the D2 variable region of 28S ribosomal RNA. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 6, 178–188.

Pratt, H.D. (1952). Notes on Anopheles earlei and other American species of the Anopheles maculipennis complex. The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1(3), 484–493.

Rozeboom, L.E. (1952). Anopheles (A.) earlei Vargas, 1943, in Montana: Identity and adaptation to laboratory conditions (Diptera: Culicidae). The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1(3), 477–483.

Stone, A., & Knight, K.L. (1956b). Type specimens of mosquitoes in the United States National Museum. III. The genera Anopheles and Chagasia (Diptera, Culicidae). Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 46(9), 276–280.

Wallis, R.C., & Whitman, L. (1971). New collection records for Psorophora ciliata (Fabricius), Psorophora ferox (Humboldt) and Anopheles earlei Vargas in Connecticut (Diptera: Culicidae). Journal of Medical Entomology, 8(3), 336–337.

White, G.B. (1978). Systematic reappraisal of the Anopheles maculipennis complex. Mosquito Systematics, 10(1), 13–44.

Vargas, L. (1943b). Anopheles earlei Vargas, 1942, n. sp. norteamericana del grupo maculipennis. Boletín de la Oficina Sanitaria Panamericana, 22(1), 8–12.

 

CITE THIS PAGE

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