Anopheles jamesii Theobald, 1901

INDOMALAYAN REGION

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Etymology: James [collector?]

Type locality: Quilon, Travancore, India

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

TAXONOMIC KEYS

Nguyen Thuong Hien 1968

Darsie & Pradhan 1990

Rattanarithikul et al. 2006b

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.) Neocellia Series - Oriental - Adult

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

Exemplar DNA sequences

All Anopheles jamesii DNA sequences

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, People’s Republic of China, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

Theobald 1901a: 134 (F*)

Davis 1926 (F*)

Christophers 1933: 291 (M*, F*, L, E)

Jayewickreme 1952: 47 (bionomics)

Nguyen Thuong Hien 1968 (F*, L*; keys, taxonomy, bion, distribution; Vietnam)

Reid 1968: 369 (M*, F*, P*, L*, E*)

Aslamkhan 1971b (distribution; Pakistan)

Darsie & Pradhan 1990 (F, L; taxonomy, keys, bionomics, distribution; Nepal)

Oo et al. 2004 (distribution; Myanmar)

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

Morgan et al. 2009 (molecular phylogeny; Neocellia Series)

Namgay et al. 2018 (bionomics, distribution; Bhutan)

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

None

 

CURRENT SUBSPECIES

None

 

CITED REFERENCES

Aslamkhan, M. (1971b). The mosquitoes of Pakistan. I. A checklist. Mosquito Systematics, 3(4), 147–159.

Christophers, S.R. (1933). The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Diptera. Vol. IV. Family Culicidae. Tribe Anophelini. London, England: Taylor and Francis.

Darsie, R.F., Jr., & Pradhan, S.P. (1990). The mosquitoes of Nepal: Their identification, distribution and biology. Mosquito Systematics, 22(2), 69–130.

Darsie, R.F., Jr., & Pradhan, S.P. (1991). The mosquitoes of Nepal their identification, distribution and biology. Index and corrigendum. Mosquito Systematics, 23(1), 46–49.

Davis, N.C. (1926). Notes on the female hypopygia of anopheline mosquitoes, with special reference to some Brazilian species. American Journal of Hygiene, 6(March suppl.), 1–22.

Jayewickreme, S.H. (1952). Methods of rearing the larvae of some anopheline mosquitoes of Ceylon with observations on their life history. Ceylon Journal of Science B, 25, 29–53.

Morgan, K., O’Loughlin, S.M., Mun-Yik, F., Linton, Y.-M., Somboon, P., Min, S., . . . Walton, C. (2009). Molecular phylogenetics and biogeography of the Neocellia Series of Anopheles mosquitoes in the Oriental Region. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 52(3), 588–601.

Namgay, R., Drukpa, T., Wangdi, T., Pemo, D., Harbach, R.E., & Somboon, P. (2018). A checklist of the Anopheles mosquito species (Diptera: Culicidae) in Bhutan. Acta Tropica, 188, 206–212.

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.

Oo, T.T., Storch, V., & Becker, N. (2004). Review of the Anopheles mosquitoes of Myanmar. Journal of Vector Ecology, 29(1), 21–40.

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.

Reid, J.A. (1968). Anopheline mosquitoes of Malaya and Borneo. Studies from the Institute for Medical Research Malaysia, 31, 520pp.

Theobald, F.V. (1901a). A monograph of the Culicidae or mosquitoes (Vol. 1). London, England: British Museum (Natural History).

 

CITE THIS PAGE

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