AUSTRALASIAN REGION
Etymology: n.s. [mark (L); ref. to wing being “hyaline, tinged with pale yellowish-brown at the stigmatic region”]
Type locality: Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia
Type depository: Australian National Insect Collection, Canberra, Australia (ANIC)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
Lee et al. 1987b
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Australasia - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Australasia - Larva
WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Australasia - Adult
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Australia
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Skuse 1889: 1758 (M, F).
Bonne-Wepster & Swellengrebel 1953: 114 (M*, F*, L*)
Marks 1956: 46 (M*, F*, L; bionomics)
Dobrotworsky 1957: 181 (M*, F, P*, L*; taxonomy)
Dobrotworsky 1965: 41 (M*, F*, L*)
Lee et al. 1987b: 95 (F; key, taxonomy, bionomics, distribution, review; type depository)
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.
Dobrotworsky, N.V. (1957). Notes on Australian mosquitoes (Diptera, Culicidae). II. Notes on Anopheles stigmaticus and description of new species of Anopheles from Australia and New Guinea. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 82(2), 180–188.
Dobrotworsky, N.V. (1965). The mosquitoes of Victoria (Diptera, Culicidae). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Griffiths, M., Debenham, M.L., Bryan, J.H., Russell, R.C., . . . Marks, E.N. (1987b). The Culicidae of the Australasian Region (Vol. 5). Commonwealth Department of Health, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine Monograph Series, 2. Canberra: Australian Government.
Marks, E.N. (1956). A new species of Anopheles from Queensland and notes on related species (Diptera, Culicidae). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland, 67(6), 41–52.
Skuse, F.A.A. (1889). Diptera of Australia. Part V. The Culicidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 3, 1717–1764.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles stigmaticus species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/stigmaticus, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
