NEOTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: Volcán de Chiriquí, Panama
Type locality: Chiriquí Volcano, NW Panama
Type depository: U.S. National Museum, Washington, D.C., United States (USNM)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
None
WRBU - Genera - Global - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Neotropical - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Neotropical - Larva
Exemplar DNA sequences
All Anopheles chiriquiensis DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Guatemala, Panama.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Komp 1936b: 156 (M*, F*, L)
Dampf 1939: 281 (synonymy)
Hoffmann 1939 (M*, F*)
Stone & Knight 1956b: 277 (type information, lectotype designation)
Wilkerson 1990: 179 (from synonomy with parapunctipennis)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Dampf, A. (1939). Los hipopigios masculinos de Anopheles hectoris y parapunctipennis (Insecta, Diptera, Culicidae). Sobretiro de los anales de la Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas (Mexico), 1(2), 279–291.
Hoffmann, C.C. (1939). La formación de razas de Anopheles mexicanos. III. Anopheles chiriquiensis Komp en el interior del Estado de Chiapas. Anales del Instituto de Biología, Universidad nacional Autónoma de México, 10, 347–352.
Komp, W.H.W. (1936b). Anopheles (Anopheles) chiriquiensis, a new species of Anopheles Panama (Diptera, Culicidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 38(7), 156–160.
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.
Wilkerson, R.C. (1990a). Elevation of Anopheles chiriquiensis from synonymy with Anopheles parapunctipennis and designation of name bearing types for Anopheles parapunctipennis and Anopheles parapunctipennis parapunctipennis (Diptera: Culicidae). Mosquito Systematics, 21(for 1989)(3), 178–187.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles chiriquiensis species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/chiriquiensis, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
