PALEARCTIC REGION
Etymology: Japan
Type locality: [Kanayama], Hokkaido [and Mount Myogi], Japan
Type depository: Medical Zoology Laboratory, Institute for Infectious Diseases, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (IID)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
None
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
WRBU – Genera – Eastern Palearctic – Adult
WRBU – Genera – Eastern Palearctic – 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
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Japan, People’s Republic of China, South Korea.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Yamada, 1918: 689 (F*; as sp.)
LaCasse & Yamaguti 1950: 17 (M*, F*, P*, L*; bionomics, distribution, taxonomy)
Tajima 1952: 90 (E*)
Hara 1957: 48 (F*); Hara 1957 (F*)
Ohmori 1959: 222 (P*); Hara 1959 (F*)
Tanaka et al. 1979: 61 (M*, F*, P, L*)
Namgay, et al 2020 (to sp.)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Hara, J. (1957). Studies on the female terminalia of Japanese mosquitoes. Japanese Journal of Experimental Medicine, 27, 45–91.
La Casse, W.J., & Yamaguti, S. (1950). Mosquito fauna of Japan and Korea. Kyoto, Japan: Office of the Surgeon, Headquarters 8th Army, US Army.
Namgay, R., Pemo, D., Wangdi, T., Phanitchakun, T., Harbach, R. E., & Somboon, P. (2020). Molecular and morphological evidence for sibling species within Anopheles (Anopheles) lindesayi Giles (Diptera: Culicidae) in Bhutan. Acta tropica, 207, 105455.
Ohmori, Y. (1959). The pupae of Japanese Anopheles. Japanese Journal of Sanitary Zoology, 10, 210–225.
Tajima, K. (1952). Some notes on the eggs of Anopheles lindesayi var. japonicus Yamada. Japanese Journal of Sanitary Zoology, 3, 90–94.
Tanaka, K., Mizusawa, K., & Saugstad, E.S. (1979). A revision of the adult and larval mosquitoes of Japan (including the Ryukyu Archipelago and Ogasawara Islands) and Korea (Diptera: Culicidae). Contributions of the American Entomological Institute, 16, 1–987.
Yamada, S. (1918). A new species of Anopheles collected from Hokkaido. Eiseigaku Densenbryogaku zasshi (Journal of Hygiene and Infectious Diseases), 13, 689–691.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles japonicus species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/an_japonicus, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
