ORIENTAL REGION
Etymology: Sumatra, Indonesia
Type locality: Karoo-Hochebene & Kotaradja, Sumatra [Indonesia]
Type depository: Location unknown
TAXONOMIC KEYS
None
WRBU - Genera - Global - 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 sumatranus DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Indonesia (Sumatra)
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Swellengrebel & Rodenwaldt 1932: 78 (F*, L*; as gigas variety)
Bonne-Wepster & Swellengrebel 1953: 144 (F, L*)
Harbach & Howard 2007: 39 (from gigas variety)
Harbach et al. 2017 (to species)
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.
Harbach, R.E., & Howard, T.M. (2007). Corrections in the status and rank of names used to denote varietal forms of mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae). Zootaxa, 1542, 35–48.
Harbach, R.E., Rattanarithikul, R., & Harrison, B.A. (2017). Anopheles prachongae, a new species of the Gigas Complex of subgenus Anopheles (Diptera: Culicidae) in Thailand, contrasted with known forms of the complex. Zootaxa, 4236(1), 65–81.
Swellengrebel, N.H., & Rodenwaldt, E. (1932). Die anophelen von Niedeländisch-Ostindien. 3te auflage. Gustav Fischer, Jena.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles sumatranus species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/sumatranus, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
