PALEARCTIC REGION
Etymology: Antonio Labranca
Type locality: [Pontine Marshes, Rome, Latium], Italy
Type depository: Location Unknown (LU)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
Bates et al. 1949
White 1978
Becker et al. 2010
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Western Palearctic - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Western Palearctic - Larva
Exemplar DNA sequences
All Anopheles labranchiae DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Algeria, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Egypt, France (Corsica), Greece, Iran, Italy (includes Sardinia and Sicily), Libya, Morocco, Romania, Spain, Tunisia, United Kingdom.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Falleroni 1926: 564 (E*; claviger variety)
Bates 1940: 354 (to species)
Bates et al. 1949 (F, L, E*; keys)
Aitken 1953: 307 (A, P, L, E; bionomics)
Mezzanotte & Ferrucci 1978 (taxonomy; s.l.)
White 1978 (taxonomy, review, keys, distribution)
Linton et al. 2003 (review; Maculipennis Complex)
Sinka et al. 2010: 117 (bionomics review, distribution, niche model)
Becker et al. 2010: 174 (E*; key, taxonomy, distribution, bionomics)
Labouti et al. 2011 (review., taxonomy, bionomics, distribution)
Robert et al. 2019 (distribution, western Palearctic)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
syn. sicaulti Roubaud
1935a: 107 (M*, L*, E*; maculipennis variety). Type locality: Near Rabat, French Morocco (PIP?). References: Bates 1940: 353 (syn. suggested); Romeo Viamonte 1950 (as variety of labranchiae); Senevet & Andarelli 1956 (as labranchiae subspecies); Guy & Holstein 1968 (syn. with labranchiae); White 1978 (from syn. with labranchiae; neotype designation); de Zulueta et al. 1983: 73 (eggs, chromosomes, allozymes); Labouti et al. 2011 (molecular taxonomy review, syn. with labranchiae).
syn. pergusae Missiroli
1935: 333 (E; maculipennis subspecies) Type locality: Lake Pergusa, Enna Province, Sicily (LU). References: Bates 1940: 352 (syn.).
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Aitken, T.H.G. (1953). The anopheline fauna of Sardinia. American Journal of Hygiene Monograph Series, 20, 303–352.
Bates, M. (1940). The nomenclature and taxonomic status of the mosquitoes of the Anopheles maculipennis complex. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 33(2), 343–356.
Bates, M., Beklemishev, W.N., & La Face, L. (1949). Anophelines of the Palearctic 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 (pp. 419–442). Philadelphia, PA: Saunders.
Becker, N., Petrić, D., Zgomba, M., Boase, C., Madon, M., Dahl, C., & Kaiser, A. (2010). Mosquitoes and their control (2nd ed.). Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag.
de Zulueta, J., Ramsdale, C., Cianchi, R., Bullini, L., & Coluzzi, M. (1983). Observations on the taxonomic status of Anopheles sicaulti. Parassitologia (Rome), 25(1), 73–92.
Falleroni, D. (1926). Fauna anofelica italiana e suo “habitat” (paludi, risaie, canali). Metodi di lotta contro la malaria. Revista di malariologia, 5(5–6), 553–593.
Guy, Y., & Holstein, M. (1968). Données récentes sur les Anophèles du Maghreb. Archives de l’Institut Pasteur d’Algérie, 46, 146–150.
Labouti, M., Faraj, C., Sadak, A., Harrat, Z. Boubidi, S., Harbach, R.E., El Aouad, R., & Linton, Y.-M. (2011). DNA barcodes confirm the presence of a single member of the Anopheles maculipennis group in Morocco and Algeria: An. sicaulti is conspecific with An. labranchiae. Acta Tropica, 118(1), 6–13.
Linton, Y.-M., Smith, L., Koliopoulos, G., Samanidou-Voyadjoglou, A., Zounos, A.K., & Harbach, R.E. (2003). Morphological and molecular characterization of Anopheles (Anopheles) maculipennis Meigen, type species of the genus and nominotypical member of the Maculipennis Complex. Systematic Entomology, 28(1), 39–55.
Mezzanotte, R., & Ferrucci, L. (1978). Recognition of the sibling species Anopheles atroparvus (Van Thiel) and Anopheles labranchiae (Falleroni) (Diptera, Culicidae) on the basis of Q and C banding. Monitore zoologica Italiano, 12, 211–218.
Missiroli, A. (1935). Nuova varietà de Anopheles maculipennis. Annali d'igiene sperimentale, 45(5), 333.
Robert, V., Günay, F., Le Goff, G., Boussès, P., Sulesco, T., Khalin, A., Medlock, J.M., Kampen, H., Petrić, D., & Schaffner, F. (2019). Distribution chart for Euro-Mediterranean mosquitoes (western Palaearctic region). Journal of the European Mosquito Control Association, 37, 1–28.
Romeo Viamonte, J.M. (1950). Los anofelinos de España y de la zona Española del Protectorado de Marruecos. Su relacioncon la difusion del paludismo. Revista de sanidad e higiene pública (Madrid), 24, 213–295.
Roubaud, M.E. (1935a). Variété nouvelle de l’Anopheles maculipennis au Maroc, A. maculipennis sicaulti (n. var.). Bulletin de la Société de Pathologie Exotique, 28(2), 107–111.
Senevet, G., & Andarelli, L. (1956c). Les Anopheles de l'Afrique du Nord et du bassin mediterraneen. Paris, France: Lechevalier.
Sinka, M.E., Bangs, M.J., Manguin, S., Coetzee, M., Mbogo, C.M., Hemingway, J., . . . Hay, S.I. (2010a). The dominant Anopheles vectors of human malaria in Africa, Europe and the Middle East: Occurrence, data, distribution maps and bionomic précis. Parasites and Vectors, 3(117), 1–34.
White, G.B. (1978). Systematic reappraisal of the Anopheles maculipennis complex. Mosquito Systematics, 10(1), 13–44.
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Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles labranchiae species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/labranchiae, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
