ORIENTAL REGION
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 - Genera - Global - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Oriental - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Oriental - Larva
WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Oriental - Adult
WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Oriental - Larva
Exemplar DNA sequences
All Anopheles alongensis DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Vietnam
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].
