INDOMALAYAN & PALEARCTIC REGIONS
Etymology: Sayid Abdul Majid
Type locality: Coorg, India
Type depository: Malaria Institute of India, Delhi, India [Collections transferred to the National Institute of Communicable Diseases, Delhi, India (Reinert 1973e:32); See NICD] (MSI); Natural History Museum, London, England, United Kingdom (NHMUK)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
Darsie & Pradhan 1990
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Eastern Palearctic - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Eastern Palearctic - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Indomalaya - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Indomalaya - Larva
WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Indomalaya - Adult
WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Indomalaya - Larva
Exemplar DNA sequences
All Anopheles majidi DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Nepal.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Young & Majid 1928: 469 (M, F*, L*; karwari variety)
Christophers 1933: 226 (M*, F*, L*)
Khin-Maung-Kyi 1971d: 481 (distribution, bionomics)
Ahmed 1987 (distribution; Bangladesh)
Townsend 1990: 100 (type information)
Darsie & Pradhan 1990 (F, L; taxonomy, keys, bionomics, distribution; Nepal)
Oo et al. 2004 (distribution; Myanmar)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Ahmed, T.U. (1987). Checklist of the mosquitoes of Bangladesh. Mosquito Systematics, 19(3), 187–200.
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.
Khin-Maung-Kyi. (1971d). The anopheline mosquitoes of Burma. 3. Subgenus Myzomyia Blanchard group Myzomyia. Union of Burma Journal of Life Sciences, 4(3), 473–483.
Oo, T.T., Storch, V., & Becker, N. (2004). Review of the Anopheles mosquitoes of Myanmar. Journal of Vector Ecology, 29(1), 21–40.
Townsend, B.C. (1990). Culicidae. In B.C. Townsend, J. E. Chainey, R.W. Crosskey, A.C. Pont, R.P. Lane, J.P.T. Boorman, & C.A. Crouch (Eds.), A catalogue of the types of bloodsucking flies in the British Museum (Natural History) (pp. 35–152). London, England: British Museum (Natural History).
Young, T.C.M., & Majid, S.A. (1928). A variety of Anopheles karwari collected in Coorg, S. India. Indian Journal of Medical Research, 16(2): 469–471.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles majidi species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/majidi, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
