Anopheles epiroticus Linton & Harbach, 2005

ORIENTAL REGION

Family
Subfamily
Genus
Subgenus
Series
Complex

 

Etymology: from the mainland (Gr); ref. to “its primary distribution in Southeast Asia.” 

Type locality: Village Van Duc A, An Trach Commune, Gia Rai District, Bac Lieu Province, Thailand

Type depository: Natural History Museum, London, England, United Kingdom (NHMUK)

TAXONOMIC KEYS

None

 

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 - Indomalaya - Adult

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WRBU - Genera - Indomalaya - 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 - Indomalaya - Adult

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WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Indomalaya - Larva

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WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Oriental - Adult

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WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Oriental - Larva

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WRBU - Anopheles (Cel.) Pyretophorus Series - Oriental - Adult

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WRBU - Anopheles (Cel.) Pyretophorus Series - Oriental - Larva

 

Exemplar DNA sequences

All Anopheles epiroticus DNA sequences

 

Associated Pathogens

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam. 

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES:

Linton & Harbach 2005: 332 (M*, F*, P*, L*, bionomics, molecular taxonomy). In Linton et al. 2005. 

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

Dusfour et al. 2004b (mol taxonomy, as sundaicus s.l.)

Rattanarithikul et al. 2006b (F*, L*; bionomics, distribution, keys).

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

None

 

CURRENT SUBSPECIES

None

 

CITED REFERENCES

Dusfour, I., Linton, Y.-M., Cohuet, A., Harbach, R.E., Baimai, V., Trung, H.D., Chang Moh Seng, Matusop A., & Manguin, S. (2004b) Molecular evidence of speciation between island and continental populations of Anopheles (Cellia) sundaicus in Southeast Asia. Journal of Medical Entomology, 41(3), 287–295.

Linton, Y.-M., Dusfour, I., Howard, T.M., Ruiz L.F., Duc Manh, N., Ho Dinh, T., . . . Harbach, R.E. (2005). Anopheles (Cellia) epiroticus (Diptera: Culicidae), a new malaria vector species in the southeast Asian sundaicus complex. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 95(4), 329–339.

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.

Rattanarithikul, R., Harrison, B.A., Harbach, R.E., Panthusiri, P., & Coleman, R.E. (2006b). Illustrated keys to the mosquitoes of Thailand. IV. Anopheles. Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health, 128(Suppl. 2), 2.

 

CITE THIS PAGE

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