PALEARCTIC REGION
Etymology: Pleccau, word for mosquito in Takasago language, Japan
Type locality: Musha, Formosa [Taiwan, Republic of China]
Type depository: Location Unknown (LU); syntype in Natural History Museum, London, England, United Kingdom (NHMUK)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
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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
People’s Republic of China, Taiwan.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Koidzumi, 1924: 97 (A, L; as sp.)
Puri 1949: 485 (to ssp.)
Namgay, et al 2020 (to sp.)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
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CURRENT SUBSPECIES
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CITED REFERENCES
Koidzumi, M. (1924). The anophelines of Formosa. In A.S. Hoops & J.W. Scharff (Eds.), Far Eastern Association of Tropical Medicine— Transactions of the Fifth Biennial Congress held at Singapore, 1924 (pp. 96–101). London, England: Bale, Sons and Danielsson.
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.
Puri, I.M. (1949). Anophelines of the Oriental Region. In M.F. Boyd (Ed.), Malariology: A comprehensive survey of all aspects of this group of diseases from a global standpoint, by 65 contributors. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles pleccau species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/an_pleccau, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
