NEARCTIC REGION
Etymology: William Brodbeck Herms
Type locality: Malibu Canyon at Pacific Coast Highway, Los Angeles County, California, United States
Type depository: U.S. National Museum, Washington, D.C., United States (USNM)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
Darsie & Ward 2005
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Nearctic - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Nearctic - Larva
Exemplar DNA sequences
All Anopheles hermsi DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
United States (continental)
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Barr & Guptavanij 1989: 353 (M, F, P, L, E)
Porter & Collins 1996 (molecular phylogeny; Nearctic)
Darsie & Ward 2005 (F*, L*; keys, distribution)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Barr, A.R., & Guptavanij, P. (1989). Anopheles hermsi n. sp., an unrecognized American species of the Anopheles maculipennis group (Diptera: Culicidae). Mosquito Systematics, 20(for 1988)(3), 352–356.
Darsie, R.F., Jr., & Ward, R.A. (2005). Identification and geographical distribution of the mosquitoes of North America, north of Mexico. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
Porter, C.H., & Collins, F.H. (1996). Phylogeny of Nearctic members of the Anopheles maculipennis species group derived from the D2 variable region of 28S ribosomal RNA. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 6, 178–188.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles hermsi species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/hermsi, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
