Anopheles roperi Reid, 1950

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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 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 (Ano.) Myzorhynchus Series - Indomalaya - Adult

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WRBU - Anopheles (Ano.) Myzorhynchus Series - Indomalaya - Larva

 

Exemplar DNA sequences

All Anopheles roperi DNA sequences

 

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.

 

CITE THIS PAGE

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].