ORIENTAL REGION
Etymology: Richard Snelling Roper
Type locality: Kuala Kubu Bahru, Selangor, Malaya [Malaysia]
Type depository: Natural History Museum, London, England, United Kingdom (NHMUK)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
Rattanarithikul et al. 2006b
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Indomalaya - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Indomalaya - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Oriental - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Oriental - Larva
WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Indomalaya - Adult
WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Indomalaya - Larva
WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Oriental - Adult
WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Oriental - Larva
WRBU - Anopheles (Ano.) Myzorhynchus Series - Indomalaya - Adult
WRBU - Anopheles (Ano.) Myzorhynchus Series - Indomalaya - Larva
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Reid 1950: 298 (M*, F*, P*, L*)
Bonne-Wepster & Swellengrebel 1953: 184 (M*, F*, L*)
Reid 1968: 183 (M*, F*, P*, L*, E*)
Harrison & Klein 1975 (distribution)
Harrison & Scanlon 1975: 124 (M*, F*, P*, L*; distribution)
Rattanarithikul et al. 2006b (F*, L*; bionomics, distribution, keys)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Bonne-Wepster, J., & Swellengrebel, N.H. (1953). The anopheline mosquitoes of the Indo-Australian Region. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: de Bussy.
Harrison, B.A., & Klein, J.M. (1975). A revised list of the Anopheles of Cambodia. Mosquito Systematics, 7(1), 11–12.
Harrison, B.A., & Scanlon, J.E. (1975). Medical entomology studies. II. The subgenus Anopheles in Thailand (Diptera: Culicidae). Contributions of the American Entomological Institute, 12(1), 1–307.
Harrison, B.A., Scanlon, J.E., & Reid, J.A. (1973). A new synonymy and new species name in the Southeast Asian Anopheles hyrcanus complex. Mosquito Systematics, 5(4), 263–268.
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. (1950). The Anopheles umbrosus group (Diptera: Culicidae). I: Systematics, with descriptions of two new species. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society B, 101(9), 281–318.
Reid, J.A. (1968). Anopheline mosquitoes of Malaya and Borneo. Studies from the Institute for Medical Research Malaysia, 31, 520pp.
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Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles roperi species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/roperi, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
