Anopheles alongensis Venhuis, 1940

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Etymology:  After type locality of Along Bay, Vietnam

Type locality: Baie d’Along, Tonkin, Indochina [Hanoi province, Vietnam]

Type depository: Geneeskundig Laboratorium, Djakarta, Indonesia (GLB)

TAXONOMIC KEYS

Nguyen Thuong Hien 1968 (Vietnam)

 

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 - Oriental - Adult

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WRBU - Genera - Oriental - Larva

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WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Oriental - Adult

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WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Oriental - Larva

Exemplar DNA sequences

All Anopheles alongensis DNA sequences

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Vietnam

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IMPORTANT REFERENCES

Venhuis 1940: 173 (L*)

Bonne-Wepster & Swellengrebel 1953: 102 (M*, F*, L*)

Nguyen Thuong Hien 1968 (F*, L*; keys, taxonomy, bionomics, distribution; Vietnam)

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

syn. tonkinensis Galliard & Ngu

1940: 595 (M*, F*, P*, L*; not Toumanof 1931). Type locality: Golfe du Tonkin, Indochina [Hanoi province, Vietnam] (EMH). References: Senevet 1947c: 214 (synonymy).

 

CURRENT SUBSPECIES

None

 

CITED REFERENCES

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

Galliard, H., & Ngu, D.V. (1940). Une espèce nouvelle d’Anophèles du Tonkin, A. tonkinensis sp. nov. Revue médicale Franҫaise d’Extrême-Orient, 18(9–10), 595–598.

Nguyen Thuong Hien. (1968). The genus of Anopheles in Vietnam (Military Entomology Information Service, Trans.) Saigon: Bureau of Entomology, National Malaria Program/Republic of Vietnam.

Senevet, G. (1947c). Anopheles tonkinensis synonyme de A. alongensis. Archives de l’Institut Pasteur d’Algérie, 25(3–4), 214–217.

Venhuis, W.G. (1940). Een nieuwe Anopheles larveuit Indo-China, Anopheles alongensis nov. sp. Geneeskundig tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch-Indië Buitenzorg, 80, 173–178.

 

CITE THIS PAGE

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